Bitten by the self-hosting bug!
The joy and nightmare of owning your own digital world.
Tech Twitter (X) has this unique way of taking you on a ride through whatever is popular at that point in time and this time it was hating on Vercel and an overwhelming support for open source software for self hosting
I have always avoided self hosting as it sounded a little too complex and time consuming, and when there are single-click-deploy options like Vercel, I never felt the need to explore the topic any further than what tech twitter was shoving down my throat. Also, as opposed to many unfortunate folks who got gargantuan bills on Vercel with their new app going viral, I never faced that issue as I had only one user - me 😄
That being said, I was in fact looking for something new to learn, and I wanted to get better at CI/CD, deployment, Docker containers and all that comes with maintaining a server (learning React over and over was getting a little tiresome)
So I decided to take the plunge into the self hosting space, and boy o boy, this is the real deal.
The good, the bad, and the unknown
The plan
Well, the plan is to do some research, deploy a bunch of open source stuffs, and then write about it here. By here, I mean a Ghost CMS blog that's currently running on a server in my bedroom closet. Noice!
I want this blog to be sort of my digital diary - capture everything that I've learnt and un-learnt from now on, so that I can come back here and use this for my own reference. I am in no way an expert (yet) in the self-hosting space, but I do plan to get there one day. So far, the journey forward looks exciting.
Later,
Ashis