From “How hard can it be?” to “Oh, that’s why people use Gmail” – A tale of SMTP, DKIM, and debugging Introduction After successfully building the web server foundation in Part 1, I was feeling confident. “Email can’t be that…
A journey from concept to production: Building a self-hosted WordPress website with Docker Introduction When I decided to build my own self-hosted website and email infrastructure, I knew I wanted complete control over my data, flexibility to customize everything, and…
So there was a power failure at my home (where this beautiful site is hosted) and when the power came back on this website wouldn’t come up. I scoured through nginx configurations and even asked copilot and cursor to help…
Part two: ISP, Modem / Router and Registration In part one we focused on building and installing the hardware and software needed to host a website. The article focuses on In a residential setting internet connections are provided by an…
Part one: The gear and the software Just finished hosting this web site utilizing containers to learn a bit more about docker and docker compose. There were several great sites to move me along my way and then the pure…
Item Selection Notes Operating System Ubuntu Standard Linux installation. Database mySQL Free open source database. Web Server nginx Free open source web server. Yeah chose this ahead of Apache. Language php Standard language for web programming. Word Press will hide…
Backup the Database. Used Export function from my SQL Workbench Backup Word Press: Copy the entire word press directory to another folder.
I was trying to determine how to increase the file upload size for a Word Press instance running on nginx. Came across the following: This site offered a means of addressing the php instance and nginx to increase file…