Raspberry_pi on passthejoe

After self-hosting on a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, I'm back on a free VPS

Tue, 10 Dec 2024 07:45:00 -0800

My time hosting a web server on a Raspberry Pi in the coat closet has come to an end. I’m not unhappy. I don’t need to be inviting ports 80 and 443 into my home network. It was just an experiment. One that went really well.

But I’m OK moving on.

When the self-hosting experiment began with my first Raspberry Pi (a Zero W that was not up to the task), I was surprised to find out that I could use my Spectrum-supplied Arris cable modem/router to open ports 80 and 443 and forward them to a computer on my local network.

My 'dynamic' IP is pretty static

Sat, 21 Sep 2019 12:35:57 -0700

I have been running this web server on a Raspberry Pi Zero W in my coat closet for three months, and my dynamic IP still hasn’t changed.

That’s good because I still haven’t implemented a script to change where my URL points from FreeDNS in the event that my home IP changes. At some point I guess it’ll happen, and the server will be offline until I figure it out.

Or I’ll just sit down some time before then and work out the script …

Setting up FTP on my Raspberry Pi

Sun, 14 Jul 2019 18:05:22 -0700

Running your own servers — be they VPSes on Google, AWS or Digital Ocean, or Raspberry Pis in the closet — is a learning experience. You have to put on your sysadmin hat and get to work.

Today I’m trying to figure out the ftp server. I’ve used a hundred of them but never installed and configured one. The hardest part to figure out is the SSL encryption.

If you see this file, it means I’ve made some progress.