This blog setup

Hi

So this is the second post, come faster than I expected. Quite proud of myself. Today I gonna share a little about my little blog setup.

This domain(bacphan.dev) was bought about 2 year ago, from google domain, before squarespace acquire it. I bought it because i always want an custom email domain, then I learnt it the hardway that if you setup your own email server, chance are your email will mostly end up in spam/trash folder. So google workspace it is.

Then I bought a VPS. Because my country began blocking Steam access from “home” users(idk exact reason). Using VPN is 1 solution, but they are expensive, and most of them limits number of clients. Luckily i already had a hand on experience on setup a VPN server on my own network, so setting up vpn server on vps is not that hard.

Now, about this blog. This blog is using WordPress as you can guess from the template(or from placeholder url that i am still lazy to remove). The whole setup is running from a container on Docker. Quite cool huh ? Using docker means it would be easy to migrate this blog to other machine, also it’s easier to un-done my setup(just remove the container).

There is also a gitea server on this vps(You can guess its URL lol). Also on docker of course.

The coolest part is most of the setup is done by Claude. I just gave it what i want, some keywords that i saw on internet(like docker, wordpress, etc) and it will setup for me, quite painless. Claude code is really awesome. Maybe my next post will be about LLM.

So in summary, this server is currently a VPN server, Git server and this blog. I don’t plan to do anything more with it for now because its hardware is quite limited(only 2 CPU cores and 2 GB ram).