More Planning on Self Hosting
So I came home from work and sketched out a logo concept for my new domain. Nowhere near the final version... just a rough sketch.
It is probably good that the computer shipping is taking a full week. Had it arrived next day I would have already borked and reinstalled the entire OS at least half a dozen times. It also gave me time to figure out an overall plan for the installations I want to test out.
Of course, I will have to wipe Windows off the system and stick Linux on it. I'll probably start with a WordPress install and get a basic "blog" page up so my domain name actually lands on something. I'll usr Docker to install WordPress. I have zero experience with it, but it seems to be the way to go these days.
I want to do installs of Bonfire and Friendica after that. Friendica, especially, I want to use long term. After a LOT of thought about it, I will install it in a virtual machine. I can make regular clones of the VM drive. So if I bork something doing an update - I can remove the main "drive" and drop in the clone to restore everything quickly.
Anyway, think I have a plan in place. Maybe by the end of next weekend I'll have stage 1 up and running.
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in reply to Etienne le Marchand (Steve J) • • •Etienne le Marchand (Steve J)
in reply to gmc • •@gmc I debated a number of ways to do back ups for it. For the Friendica instance, it will be a small single user (me) instance. Simply copying the VBox drive (VMWare calls it cloning) is the easiest solution that I know how to do right now. The WordPress install is just WordPress. I'll make backups of my actual site which can be moved and/or restored anywhere easily.
I really DO need to learn how to backup and restore things... the Linux way. I assume Docker containers should be easy enough?? I just have zero experience with Docker yet.