Having your own website is not going to fix democracy, or topple the online pillars of capitalism - but it's making a political statement nonetheless. It says "I want to carve my own space on the web, away from the corporations". I think this is a radical act. It was when I originally said this in 2022, and I mean it even more today.
https://localghost.dev/blog/this-page-is-under-construction/
@AngelaScholder @sophie You want a website in the fediverse?
I've got setting up a gemini pod high on my want list, kinda done with the web.
@gmc @sophie The sites are on the Web indeed, but I want to get something set up fully under my own control.
So, if you have suggestiond as you clearly already have experience with it, I'm curious.
I've got a Thin Client (HP) here that I need to check out, but I'm pretty sure would well be up for the job.
@AngelaScholder @sophie Fully under your own control is going to be difficult, you're always relying on someone for the uplink to the internet.
If you want to host a website at home, your biggest challenge is potentially DNS. Do you have a static IP or a dynamic IP? If it's dynamic, you'll need to set up dynamic DNS to update your DNS records as soon as your uplink IP changes.
If you don't have a public IP at all but are behind carrier-grade NAT, you'll need to figure out how to route traffic to a public IP to your home server. My internet connection at home has this. The IP address I get assigned is not a publically routable IP, so I have set up a tunnel from my home router to my server in a datacenter and expose my home servers to the internet through the tunnel.
Not sure what you would want to host at home. If it's just a simple static site, something like lighttpd would be perfect. Even if you want something dynamic, lighttpd can work well.
@gmc @sophie Well, we do have a public Static IP and have had so most of the time we had DSL. Half a year it was cable when we moved here as there only was one pair of wires from the Telco.
I've had a webserver here at home until I switched-off the system as the power supply fan was making a lot of noise, and in the end just never replaced it. The system also didn't support HTTPS.
Same for a mail server. All running in JNOS on top of DR-DOS.
Currently some NAS systems can be connected to >2
@gmc 2) from the net if you have the right name and ports.
But indeed, I still need the fibre operator, my ISP, and the company providing the DNS.
At the moment a NAS also works as mail server, but I still need to figure out how to connect to that one from Thunderbird.
I want preferably move my Mastodon presence to a server at home, and I need to look at Friendica and other things.
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