๐Ÿ•๏ธ my adventures in #selfhosting - day 62 โœจ

On the two month anniversary of signing up for my first VPS, I have just purchased a second basic plan: a VPS that runs on Ubuntu so I can self-host Ghost on it.

Later today I will attempt manually installing Ghost with commands - wish me luck!

In case you're wondering why I'm doing this, check my previous messages. TL;DR: Ghost now only officially supports Ubuntu and MySQL, whereas YunoHost runs on Debian, with MariaDB databases. A very generous volunteer at YunoHost has been manually patching Ghost packages to ensure compatibility, but I would rather play it by the book and run a self-hosted Ghost blog on a supported system... especially since they will be federating very soon.

Wish me luck!

#MySoCalledSudoLife

a screenshot showing the dashboard of my VPS host, showing two servers: one that runs on Debian and the other on Ubuntu. Details like IP addresses and server names have been pixelated for privacy. The Debian server is shown as "running" whereas the Ubuntu one is being installed
0

If you have a fediverse account, you can quote this note from your own instance. Search https://aseachange.com/users/elena/statuses/01JM9M4WF5W2HGY7AYJE0TM60C on your instance and quote it. (Note that quoting is not supported in Mastodon.)