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?

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    Dont know about freenom but if you just want to learn and have a website running , for me yunohost was a good way to learn small things about selfhosting in a very simple way , allowing you to run services even if you don’t have experienced sysadmin in the past. Might also be a problem if you really dont know what your doing , but a lot of documentation is available on this subject and easy to find. Along with https://netlib.re/ wich allows you to have a free domain name without hosting services. Also its debian so you can do your thing too. Found it a good way but im noob in the game so may be others will have different views.

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      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:)

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          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.

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            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

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        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.

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          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!

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