I brought back a few more sites by re-aiming DNS for my domains at an #AlmaLinux 9 VPS that runs the #Caddy web server and did some builds in #Hugo and #Zola, so now I'm also running:
https://passthejoe.net
https://zola.passthejoe.net
https://stevenrosenberg.net
https://wruby.passthejoe.net
I have been maintaining this VPS in terms of doing updates, but I didn't know I still had the web server running, and at least one of these domains was already aimed at it. Now all 4 are working.
I thought I would give up the server, but I like the ease with which I can add sites in Caddy, and it's been a very reliable environment. It's a low-RAM VPS -- 512 MB -- so I had to set up a swap file just to get it to dnf upgrade. There's enough RAM to run the web server, but it's no powerhouse.
The kind of immediate writing I did in that microblog -- which went to Mastodon anyway -- was easy because I used a script in the terminal is better done in a "real" microblog like snac2, but it's nice to have an archive of what I was thinking (and typing into my Ruby script).
I haven't done a programming project like it (https://github.com/passthejoe/blogPoster) ever since, and I should. I want to do something that's a desktop GUI, and programs that help me write and publish blog posts with less friction still have a lot of appeal.
The social media paradigm of "type into the box, hit send" is still pretty powerful. All the things you need to add to a post (title, tags, categories, images) just makes everything take longer, and in my case it makes me write less, or write fewer shorter posts. That's good or bad, I guess, depending on how you look at it.
I still think @bt@bsd.cafe has the right idea with his simpler static site blogging systems https://btxx.org/projects/
I brought back a few more sites by re-aiming DNS for my domains at an #AlmaLinux 9 VPS that runs the #Caddy web server and did some builds in #Hugo and #Zola, so now I'm also running:
https://passthejoe.net
https://zola.passthejoe.net
https://stevenrosenberg.net
https://wruby.passthejoe.net
I have been maintaining this VPS in terms of doing updates, but I didn't know I still had the web server running, and at least one of these domains was already aimed at it. Now all 4 are working.
I thought I would give up the server, but I like the ease with which I can add sites in Caddy, and it's been a very reliable environment. It's a low-RAM VPS -- 512 MB -- so I had to set up a swap file just to get it to dnf upgrade. There's enough RAM to run the web server, but it's no powerhouse.