I’ve wanted to self host my blog for several years now, but as a non-welfare collecting part of the mass economic slavery that is America’s “middle class,” I’ve been busy.
Last night I was motivated. I finally figured out how to get around my frontiernet.net issued dynamic IP address by using a service called No-IP. That was the relatively easy part.
Much harder to deal with was the actual setup and configuration of a blogging server.
I started off intending to use Movable Type. About six hours after downloading it I had repeated the installation instructions three or four times and was getting tired with no working blog to show for my efforts. That’s when I Googled a variety of things and found Word Press. Having already installed MySQL, it was a fairly simple leap to pop PHP onto my server and the rest was really a snap.
WEBLOG SELF HOSTING PROJECT
TOTAL TIME INVESTED: 8 hours
TOTAL CASH INVESTED: $30 for 1 year domain name registration and IP redirection