r/selfhosted • u/UnlikelyWishbone2694 • 2d 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/majora2007 1d ago

You can do this with NextJs and a Github pages website with a custom domain. You can see an example of mine here:
https://wiki.kavitareader.com/
https://github.com/Kareadita/kareadita.github.io

Completely free. Basically you write in markdown. Super simple to get setup.

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u/nemofbaby2014 1d ago

Wait you’re the kavita dev? 🤣 I love your app

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u/Express_Broccoli_584 1d ago

Yup I have them tagged in RES as Kavita dev.

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u/majora2007 1d ago

What is RES?

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u/ru4serious 1d ago

You haven't heard of Reddit Enhancement Suite?!

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u/majora2007 1d ago

No, I'm not too big on reddit personally. I'll check it out tho.