It’s been a day so maybe it’s still too early to celebrate, but this is looking a lot better now.
Trying to run my own server using a cloud hosting provider instead of using a managed hosting service definitely turned out to be a very interesting adventure with extreme, never moderate ups and downs. Failures and struggles feel impossible while successes are disproportionately rewarding only in retrospect—I can only be absolutely certain that I can solve the issue after I have solved it. Before that, things just look grim and discouraging…
Here are some of what I’ve encountered recently:
- Being locked out of my server (oops)
- Misconfiguring the firewall and blocking all connections by mistake
- Services constantly crashing due to out of memory errors, freezing the site
As well as some newbie problems when trying to follow tutorials:
- No such file or directory!? (php/php5, 7.4/8.0, apache/apache2, etc. I ended up using dir for every step)
- Couldn’t figure out how to exit vim
- Tutorial tells me to “just create a file” and put it somewhere like it’s the most basic thing and doesn’t require further explanation
Of course, there are more problems than this, but these are the more amusing ones. In the meantime, I’ll stay optimistic, hoping this will be the last of the “unsolvable” problems I’ll have to deal with.