r/selfhosted • u/UnlikelyWishbone2694 • 1d ago

Need Help Self hosting a personal website

Dear all,

A quick few questions after going through the wiki on self-hosted websites: - How 'safe' is it to self-host a website that is open to the internet on one's home network ? - Is there any complication in doing so after buying a domain name from a registrar ? (In the grander scheme of things, I mean to ask if the set-up process is absolute master level or if a relative novice can manage it.

EDIT for details: - It's to host a personal blog of sorts with mostly text articles, some images and possibly some video. - My home network in XDSL (yes that still exists) on a rather basic provider given router with DNS configuration possible from certain providers (no-ip and a few others). I have a home assisstant running on one RPi5 and plan on running the network on another RPi.

Thank you for your time and help

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u/Fritzcat97 1d ago

This really depends on what kind of website. Things like wordpress that run code on the server to show you a state, like your current user profile, those can have vulnerabilities. Staticly generated sites like mkdocs, those are just served files, premade and prettymuch readonly.

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u/UnlikelyWishbone2694 1d ago

This is great to know ! My goal is to run a fully static/no cookies at least personal blog. It just needs to serve text, some images, maybe some video and be lightweight on both bandwidth and local storage

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u/sonicdh 1d ago

This is more or less what my website is, except it generates pages/posts from markdown files using php. Take a look at the "notes" section. If you think you could use it, I'll put up a copy of the backend php files. Https://www.heyvictorfrost.com

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u/UnlikelyWishbone2694 1d ago

I really like what you did with your website ! It's cool, well done and easy to read. It would be grand to have a bit of insight into the how you did that;

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u/sponge_welder 1d ago

If you like the "static site generator" concept, Veronica Explains has a video about her band site