I have made it a a practise to post about topics/projects that are regarding Cyber Security, Linux, Networking and IT Devops, as I find it very helpful with refinning my knowledge, and also it provides others with my ideas innovations. Leaving that a side in the past I used medium.com as the platform in which I post my projects and experiences in the field. But recently I noticed that for my posts to be viewed a subscription is required. Thats when I got the idea to host my own blog, having oracle free tier server unused which I got for my BSC’s dissertation, why not make use of it.
What I gained:
- A free no cost blog experience.
- An easy Accessible, no paywall, no ad experience for the readers.
- A more advanced method of displaying my Career and Experience.
Environment / Stack / Tools Used:
- Hugo - Open Source static site generator main tool which helped in creating this blog using papermod theme
- Ubuntu Server
- nginx - web server tool used to expose my blog
- Cloudflare - To make a secure tunnel with my domain
- Oracle free tier
- Docker - To run nginx and hugo in a more isolated and secure environment.