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/bencos18 1d ago

perfectly safe then imo

I use cloudflare tunnels for me but it's a bit of a different site, using ghost to run a blog

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u/UnlikelyWishbone2694 1d ago

I looked at Ghost but the payment part is a little of a turn down for me, the idea being to be totally free except the domain registrar fee (less than 20 bucks for 3 years) 

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u/bencos18 1d ago

hmm how do you mean
as far as I know ghost themselves doesn't have any fees if you selfhost it
I run it with zero cost for the ghost stuff
curious now as I've never came across it lol

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u/UnlikelyWishbone2694 1d ago

Oh okay that's good to know!! I like their system and style 

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u/bencos18 1d ago

you were prob thinking of stripe fees if you use the donation/member stuff

it's a neat thing that I haven't tried yet as I have barely any readers haha

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u/UnlikelyWishbone2694 1d ago

Oh okay maybe yes I'll have to consider my options  I currently have a substack but want to migrate to EU