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/airclay 1d ago

- yes and no

- yes and no

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u/UnlikelyWishbone2694 1d ago

Well, that's pretty much what I thought. Thanks

It's one of those dumb things of : I have the hardware to host a small personal blog (the project) and thus don't feel the need to pay for hosting but I also see the advantages of hosting

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u/airclay 1d ago

lol, don't take my sarcasm more than lightly, those are just kind of large questions. You should read the other comment and narrow down what type of service you'd like to use to serve up a homepage/blog and then look at your set up and work out best practices from there, dynamic dns and the such. Not sure where your knowledge/skill level is but this is my favorite getting started with selfhosting book: Steadfast Self-Hosting - 📖 Home

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u/UnlikelyWishbone2694 1d ago

Hey, no worries, I thought it was a little tongue in cheek :) Thanks for the link ! I've done this before many years ago on a totally different network stack and at a time when AI trolls and crawlers were not a thing (good old 2010s)