I know that there are a lot of options out there, and some of it seems a little shady to me. I researched a little on the freenom webhost, who hosts the .ml domains, would that be a good option?

  • sunwayOP
    1·
    4 years ago

    thank you! both look very interesting - i am a complete noob, but have a lot of spare time at the moment to get into this:)

      • southerntofu
        2·
        4 years ago

        The raspberry pi is not free hardware, and heavily relies on non-free binary blobs (firmware) for operation. If you want a more freedom-friendly single-board computer, Olimex LIME2 is recommended by freedombox and yunohost project, and the Pine64 RockPro64 is a rather good alternative.

        In any case, if you go with a single-board computer, keep in mind SD cards are not eternal (very fragile in fact) so you should always have copies of your data or you will loose everything.

        • Masura
          3·
          4 years ago

          yeah thats so true , i mentioned r pi cause its what i find my self to have available :) but Olimex is indeed recommended. I confirmed by experience that SD card ( + cheap Sd cards) are very fragile and you should 123 backup everything to be safe

    • southerntofu
      1·
      4 years ago

      Cool if you have a lot of time and want to learn things :)

      • do you want to publish a website because you want to focus on writing/drawing content?
      • do you want to learn how to make websites? (HTML/CSS)
      • do you want to learn systems administration to self-host your web/email/IM services?

      The three are valid options, but learning/trying the three at the same time can be very demanding so i would personally recommend sticking to maximum two of these options at a time.

      • sunwayOP
        1·
        4 years ago

        Thank you for the advice! In my case, it’s probably the first two, I know a lot of html/CSS etc. But have never really used it in practice - which I think is the best way to learn. And it would just be nice to have a site where I could share some different projects:) but it seems like there’s already a lot of good suggestions for that here!

        • southerntofu
          2·
          4 years ago

          Cool! Then i strongly recommend you find yourself a tilde server, where you’ll get a shell account and some cool services :)