Recent fun discovery was being able to use https://www.cloudflare.com/en-ca/products/tunnel/ to self-host https://pggagnon.com. I feel like there is more potential in this setup
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Now it’s https://gagnon.io but still, hosting something from the basement is still neat
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Using docker to run https://ghost.org and being able to host that without worrying about configuring firewalls is a game changer
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