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How I created a self-managed blog, secure and maintainable

This article is to show how I created my personal web blog

Mikel Ors published on
4 min, 762 words

So, I finally made the decision to create my own personal website. Alright, I've purchased the domain mikelors.com, but what comes next?

What I wanted

I had some clear priorities for my webpage. Mainly three

  • 👷 Minimal maintenance: I'm aiming for a setup without the need for plugins or frequent updates. I have past experiences with CMSs like Joomla, Wordpress, Drupal... and they are cool, but require maintenance effort that I don't want.
  • 🔐 Secure with no effort: I don't want a website that could be hacked easily and, at the same time, I don't want to spend time and effort on security features.
  • 🤌 Self-managed: I don't want a SaaS platform like Wordpress.com, Blogger, Whatever where the owner could change their policies, change their prizes or simply ban me for any reason.

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how I achieved this setup.

Long story short is asking a good friend that already had a personal website that I guessed that could have similar priorities than me.

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