Hey there!

I’m thinking about starting a blog about privacy guides, security, self-hosting, and other shenanigans, just for my own pleasure. I have my own server running Unraid and have been looking at self-hosting Ghost as the blog platform. However, I am wondering how “safe” it is to use one’s own homelab for this. If you have any experience regarding this topic, I would gladly appreciate some tips.

I understand that it’s relatively cheap to get a VPS, and that is always an option, but it is always more fun to self-host on one’s own bare metal! :)

  • dan@upvote.auEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    it seems pretty sub-optimal for a personal site to be publicly associated with even a permanent IP address

    What’s the downside you see from having a static IP address?

    I don’t see any way to achieve this without a CDN, unfortunately.

    I think you’re looking for a reverse proxy. CDNs are essentially reverse proxies with edge caching (their main feature is that they cache files on servers that are closer to a user), but it sounds like you don’t really care about the caching for your use case?

    I don’t know if any companies provide reverse proxies without a CDN though.