Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂<p>🏕️ my adventures in <a href="https://aseachange.com/tags/selfhosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosting</span></a> - day 95 part 2, white flag edition 🏳️​</p><p>I turned my self-hosted Ghost blog private (for now) while I figure out reverse proxy / cache solutions for it.</p><p>It's absolutely ridiculous that the whole VPS would get overwhelmed by links to it shared on Mastodon.</p><p>Yesterday was a bit of a nightmare. I announced the new URL, tweaked an old toot to update the URL of a popular pinned article about PeerTube (pointing to my new self-hosted blog) and because the link had a preview card that servers had to fetch, the VPS immediately went offline. So people reading my announcement immediately reported they couldn't access the site. So embarrassing.</p><p>I'll plan to spend the weekend reflecting on the next steps.</p><p>Solution A: staying on my Ghost(Pro) plan which right now looks like a great deal for the money (considering all the features they offer, the lack of stress on my end and the superb customer support). Self-hosting would save me 5 dollars a month at best if I factor in a VPS, Mailgun newsletter integration and a CDN.</p><p>Am I so cheap that I will go through all this stress and uncertainty to save 5 dollars a month? Methinks not.</p><p>I just have a bruised ego because I literally spent 20+ hours moving the blog and I even started over from scratch twice. Yes I did the whole thing TWICE. First time around I found out at the last second the YunoHost installation was on mariaDB and no longer supported by the official Ghost team. Support had stopped 2 years ago even! So I signed up for a new VPS, installed everything from scratch with command lines... and the second I debuted the new thing, the VPS went offline because of a Mastodon toot with 100+ boosts. Who would have thought? The whole endeavor feels really cursed.</p><p>Solution B: figuring out reverse proxy / caching solutions... with no guarantees that a popular toot on Mastodon won't take down my whole VPS.</p><p>You can see where I'm leaning.</p><p>Aw the joys and pains of self-hosting! Lesson learned: sometimes a managed hosting solution can be a great investment and give you peace of mind.</p><p><a href="https://aseachange.com/tags/mysocalledsudolife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MySoCalledSudoLife</span></a> <a href="https://aseachange.com/tags/ineedahug" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>INeedAHug</span></a></p>