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I recently became interessted in learning about static site generators. So I decided to start a little 11ty blog, in which I teach people, who are new to self-hosting, how to securely set up their own server with Ubuntu and Docker.

For now, I've got my Beginners Guide series as well as a more detailed introduction to SSH and its features. I plan to eventually write down all I've learned about self-hosting in the past 20 years.

Hope it ends up being helpful for some of you.

EDIT (2025-10-28): Finally got around to get a proper domain and switched my blog to Hugo. Much easier to deal with and more capable imho than 11ty (and actually useful documentation as well). Oh and got rid of Netlify. Their 300 credit limit for a free deploy project is far too limiting if any deploy costs 15 credits...

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (16 children)

Ubuntu and Docker.

Really? Netplan alone disqualifies Ubuntu as a "friendly stable starter distro", and I can guarantee you that your guide will somehow become outdated with a single new Ubuntu release, or some poor soul who accidentally selected an LTS release.

Docker doesn't matter as much, but there's a reason beyond just FOSS licensing why podman exists.

Would highly recommend Debian instead.

I started on Ubuntu similar to this many years ago and both the server and desktop experience was not fun at all.

[–] Zeoic@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Whats wrong with netplan? Has worked great in my experience.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Netplan alone disqualifies Ubuntu as a "friendly stable starter distro"

OP didnt mention anything about stability. Just ease of use.

[–] Zeoic@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Whats wrong with netplan? Has worked great in my experience.

Neither did I? Yaml defined networking is incredibly easy to use.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Has worked great in my experience.

I read your comment as implication as either hard to use or unstable.

[–] Zeoic@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Honestly, I'm not sure how you get "hard to use" from "worked great"

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