Hello fellow lemmings! As mentioned in the title, I’m barely just getting started with the self hosting thing and such.

I have a small personal project for which I’d like to self host my own “ugly-90’s-HTML” blog (I just love the look and feel you know).

I’ve got a desktop machine that I could use as a server, and I also just purchased my own domain from cloudflare (for commitment), but I’m a bit stuck on the actual “putting-my-stuff-online” thing and I don’t want to do anything stupid.

I know there’s a lot of learning I still need to do, but that’s the reason I’m starting this project. Any help would be welcomed.

I have 3 cents of basic networking knowledge (I made my own Ethernet cable conection to my gateway :D); I’m using a linux distro as my main desktop; I have created an ssh tunnel with cloudflare so far, and I’m following a little html+css tutorial. The thing is, I’ve found so many different ways of putting things online, I’m a bit dizzy. I would like something that will teach me the fundamentals without holding my hand too much (a la “next, next, next, confirm, finish”), you know? I mean, I’m learning by essentially making a 90’s website… So, yeah.

Thanks in advance <3

[TL;DR] Me want make 90’s website, don’t know how

  • @Deckweiss@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3•6 months ago

    For the site itself the most minimal thing you can do is an html file.

    Then some software to act as the “server” that serves that file to a visitor. (nginx, caddy, apache - there are many options).

    And your domain needs a domain record which points to your server.

    As you want to use a home pc, you need to figure out whether your ISP gives you a dynamic or static IP.

    If static, you can just use that.

    If dynamic, you’d need some service like dynDNS to keep pointing your domain to your changing IP.