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I'm now self-hosting my website, the other static websites I maintain and my Forgejo instance<\/a> that contains my Git repositories.<\/p>\n\n

These were previously on a VPS (virtual private server) but now are running on my homelab - an old laptop that I've been using to run Jellyfin and other software.<\/p>\n\n

It's great to know I have full control over my data and to not pay a recurring monthly cost forever to host my website. Later, if I decide my current homelab laptop needs an upgrade, I can do that.<\/p>\n\n

With NixOS, the transition from the Cloud to my home server was simple and just a case of moving some configuration files from one directory to another as I've set it up in a modular way.<\/p>\n\n

I've also switched back to Nginx which was also easy to migrate my configuration and redirects using the Nix language and NixOS configuration options.<\/p>\n\n

My website is a static website, mostly generated by Sculpin<\/a> but there are some pages generated by Tome - a static site generator for Drupal<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

I'm migrating my email list archive and daily pages first and will later move my presentations, podcast episodes and old blog posts, but I'm doing it incrementally based on the path<\/a> so I can do pieces as I can around client work.<\/p>\n\n

If you like, you can see my NixOS configuration<\/a> that includes my laptop and homelab and my Tome repository<\/a> and keep track as I migrate things across.<\/p>\n\n ", "format": "full_html", "processed": "\n

I'm now self-hosting my website, the other static websites I maintain and my Forgejo instance<\/a> that contains my Git repositories.<\/p>\n\n

These were previously on a VPS (virtual private server) but now are running on my homelab - an old laptop that I've been using to run Jellyfin and other software.<\/p>\n\n

It's great to know I have full control over my data and to not pay a recurring monthly cost forever to host my website. Later, if I decide my current homelab laptop needs an upgrade, I can do that.<\/p>\n\n

With NixOS, the transition from the Cloud to my home server was simple and just a case of moving some configuration files from one directory to another as I've set it up in a modular way.<\/p>\n\n

I've also switched back to Nginx which was also easy to migrate my configuration and redirects using the Nix language and NixOS configuration options.<\/p>\n\n

My website is a static website, mostly generated by Sculpin<\/a> but there are some pages generated by Tome - a static site generator for Drupal<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

I'm migrating my email list archive and daily pages first and will later move my presentations, podcast episodes and old blog posts, but I'm doing it incrementally based on the path<\/a> so I can do pieces as I can around client work.<\/p>\n\n

If you like, you can see my NixOS configuration<\/a> that includes my laptop and homelab and my Tome repository<\/a> and keep track as I migrate things across.<\/p>\n\n ", "summary": null } ], "feeds_item": [ { "imported": "2025-05-01T23:43:31+00:00", "guid": null, "hash": "8afd6c68260de0b67d4d42f8c66d87b0", "target_type": "feeds_feed", "target_uuid": "90c85284-7ca8-4074-9178-97ff8384fe76" } ] }