By Ming in Self-hosting —

Switching to self-hosting

I recently got bitten by the self-hosting bug and decided to do something useful with my unused ThinkPad T460 that had been collecting dust on the shelf.

I might go into more details in a subsequent post, but for now these are the minimum viable steps that I've taken to expose this blog to the internet:

  1. Install Proxmox
  2. Spin up a Ubuntu 24.04 LTS VM, which serves as my home server
    1. Install Coolify, which is a PaaS that you can self-host
    2. Install cloudflared and set up Cloudflare Tunnel
  3. Set up DNS records to point to the Cloudflare Tunnel
  4. Deploy Ghost on Coolify

There are still a lot of other miscellaneous things you have to do, such as changing domain nameservers to use Cloudflare's, but I shall not bore you with the details.

Apart from the documentation from Cloudflare and Coolify, I found this article rather helpful. It covers the entire process of setting up both Cloudflare Tunnel and Coolify, and deploying a sample application. It's worth the read if want to have an overview of the entire setup process.