Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂<p>🏕️ my adventures in <a href="https://aseachange.com/tags/selfhosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosting</span></a> - day 104 (pride edition) 👷♀️<br><br>Good morning Fedi friends!<br><br>Aw pride is a powerful thing.<br><br>I'd like to think that I'm pretty zen and detached and successfully suppressing my ego... but when it comes to things I'm passionate about (read: tech, self-hosting) I cannot let things go.<br><br>I had a very very sweet shout-out on a Fediverse podcast last week... but said shout-out mentioned my self-hosting issues and that maybe self-hosting isn't for everyone. I felt that I had to correct the record (even if the mention came with the nicest intention)... because I have ZERO issues self-hosting <a href="https://aseachange.com/tags/gotosocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoToSocial</span></a>, <a href="https://aseachange.com/tags/friendica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Friendica</span></a> and <a href="https://aseachange.com/tags/pixelfed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pixelfed</span></a> (thanks to the magic of <a href="https://aseachange.com/tags/yunohost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YunoHost</span></a>). All my troubles had to do with <a href="https://aseachange.com/tags/ghost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ghost</span></a>. (And Ghost is wonderful, it's not related to it, just external circumstances).<br><br>So, determined to defend my honor (ha!) on Friday I achieved the impossible: all by myself, following guides I found online, I managed to install <a href="https://aseachange.com/tags/apache" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apache</span></a> and <a href="https://aseachange.com/tags/varnish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Varnish</span></a> on my VPS and connected Varnish to Ghost. My site was already fast, now it's BLAZING fast.<br><br>So I'm giving it another go, moving from Ghost (Pro) to my self-hosted Ghost installation. I turned off subscriptions on <a href="https://blog.elenarossini.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://blog.elenarossini.com</a>... next step is disconnecting the subdomain DNS (a CNAME record) from Ghost... and redirecting traffic to my new blog (<a href="https://news.elenarossini.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://news.elenarossini.com</a>).<br><br>I know how to code things in NGINX for the redirect to work (I think, via guides I found online).<br><br>My big question is: how do I tweak my old DNS records for <a href="https://blog.elenarossini.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://blog.elenarossini.com</a> so that NGINX on my self-hosted site <a href="https://news.elenarossini.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://news.elenarossini.com</a> will correctly pick up the traffic requests? Do I need to set up A and AAAA records for the subdomain blog to point to my VPS with the self-hosted Ghost blog? Any advice would be greatly appreciated! 🙏<br><br>Oh and I learned my lesson and - unlike last time - I am making big changes on a Monday morning, when I have the whole workweek ahead of me (instead of a Friday afternoon 1 hour before picking up my child from nursery school). You live and learn! 😅<br><br><a href="https://aseachange.com/tags/mysocalledsudolife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MySoCalledSudoLife</span></a></p>