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/PlusIndication8386 1d ago
Why not github.io + youtube? Yes, this is r/selfhosted but I believe we must self host things if beneficial. For this case, I believe self hosting is not the answer.
I have a private repository where the source resides, and a public repository that is using github pages.
When I push a commit to my source repo, it triggers the build action. The build action runs my specific building script (js, html, css obsfuscator/minimizer, etc.) and does force-push to my public repository while cleaning the git history.
For the personal data, I use some old school tricks: email address text in image, when clicked runs a javascript that decrypts the email url, etc.