I recently became interessted in learning about static site generators. So I decided to start a little 11ty blog, in which I teach people, who are new to self-hosting, how to securely set up their own server with Ubuntu and Docker.
For now, I’ve got my Beginners Guide series as well as a more detailed introduction to SSH and its features. I plan to eventually write down all I’ve learned about self-hosting in the past 20 years.
Hope it ends up being helpful for some of you.
EDIT (2025-10-28): Finally got around to get a proper domain and switched my blog to Hugo. Much easier to deal with and more capable imho than 11ty (and actually useful documentation as well). Oh and got rid of Netlify. Their 300 credit limit for a free deploy project is far too limiting if any deploy costs 15 credits…
Hahahaha what a joke!!
Talks about Selfhosting - Run blog on Netlify aka AWS SaaS
Practice what you preach.
Thank you for your very helpful and friendly criticism. I temporarily used Netlify, because I haven’t gotten around to program a proper deploy script for my Forgejo git repo.
You could just rsync it over and let apache/caddy/nginx handle it. We developers make everything complicated before it’s necessary.
What was your thought process on publishing a blog post abut local hosting on your aws website? 🤡
Practice what you preach.