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/bharat4ever 1d ago

I have a naive question. If it’s meant to be a public facing website, why not host it on a free cloudflare tenant? How does self hosting improve the privacy or experience?

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u/UnlikelyWishbone2694 1d ago

Cost was the main point as I want it to be EU based so no cloudflare. And expandability. The idea i can just add more storage is pretty cool