Blog Relaunch (Again)
A few weeks ago, I revisited the thought of how I set up my blog and the rationale about why I chose to run it all from a VM on DigitalOcean running a couple Docker containers, one with Ghost and the other running Nginx. At the time, I wanted to have a powerful, yet flexible solution, and hosting my own site through Docker containers gave me the ability to easily set up and connect together various services. It also gave me the ability to have some “useful” reason for using Docker. For the past few months, this solution worked well and I was able to claim a victory for 100% uptime, though this victory was likely only given to me due to my low site traffic. And so, given all the flexibility & power I had, I asked myself whether I really needed such a complex setup for just a low-traffic, personal blog that I rarely have the time to update?