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+title = "Should I self-host my site?"
+author = ["Michał Sapka"]
+date = 2024-09-08T21:07:00+02:00
+categories = ["blog"]
+draft = false
+weight = 2001
+image_dir = "blog/images"
+image_max_width = 600
+abstract = "A genius idea?!"
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+Up until recently, I was sure that my upload is limited to 20MB.
+I was wrong - it's 40MB, and (if Ubiquity is to believed), it's _stable_ 40MB.
+Way more than my low-traffic sites need.
+If we don't count the bots, it's a few dozen people every day.
+
+As I wrote [recently](/blog/2024/desktop-nas/), I am thinking about getting a dedicated compute server.
+Playing with Synology is effective, but it's no fun at all.
+
+But then another idea came: I have an unused Raspberry PI4.
+Sometimes my genius scares me.
+This little fella is _way_ more than a FreeBSD server serving just this site needs.
+
+This would lead to separating my sites even more, like
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+-   _unix-history_ becomes unixhist.<domain>
+-   _brain-rot_ becomes brainrot.<domain>
+
+I have to say, that just thinking about it makes me smile.
+What's sexier than an elf princess's swo... self-hosted site?
+And dedicating RPi would delay purchasing a full-blown thin-client PC, which would be "I have all the power now" moment.
+
+This raises a few concerns:
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+-   I have a dynamic IP. I can use a dynamic DNS service, but maybe a relayd on my current OpenBSD Amsterdam can be used?
+-   Can I be doxed? I mean, you could simply WHOIS me, so most likely not a risk?
+-   With all the bots out there which can kill any server, would I be DDOSed all the time?
+-   How do I start every sentence with "btw, I host my website in my living room".
+    It's already difficult enough to put Emacs and BSD there!
+
+Hosting a website is infinitely less complex than doing it for E-mail, so it's as close to a cakewalk as it gets.
+If you can help me with those questions, please do.