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A few months back, I realized I had done everything I wanted to do with my VPS server. I've had WordPress working for years, I've set up my own online radio station, I've hosted games and voice chat services, and I even have a stupid website about a horse that doesn't even exist! More on that another day... Maybe. But probably not.

Well anyway, here I was in this horrible dilemma; wanting desperately to do something interesting but finding nothing at all to fill my time. Until...

Me: "I've really been looking for something to do with my VPS. Any ideas?" Friend: "Well, you could always do some messing around with Docker. Try selfhosting something." Me: "Docker? I've heard of that but I have no idea what it is or how it works"

So he proceeded to explain it and it seemed rather interesting to me. I knew at this point what my next project was going to be. After a few hours of googling and messing around with things, I'd figured it out. So here's how to set up WordPress in Docker.

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Since I started hosting my own instance of Azuracast a year or two ago, I've tried a wide variety of setups, attempting to get things configured just like I want them. In doing this, I've learned quite a lot about networking and reverse proxies in particular. I've created this post to share some of that knowledge with you in a simple and to the point manner.

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After joining the iOS 17 beta programs this last June, I noticed that the voice I was using for Voice over had changed. Although it was technically the same voice, the file size of the voice was a tenth or less of what it was before, and with that size deflation also came a rather drastic change in the quality of the voice. It had gone from clear and easily understandable to sounding like a drunk; cutting off bits of words and slurring at higher rates of speech.

This was unacceptable. Browsing through social media with this voice was an awful experience, and so rather than stick with that voice I switched to another... Until today.

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In this article, I'll show you how to install MariaDB and PHP, as well as wordpress. In my last article, I walked you through the process of installing Nginx as well as certbot to get your website off the ground. If you haven't set up Nginx or Certbot, and you want to set up wordpress, you should go back to that article and follow those instructions by clicking here, since this article assumes you've just completed all the steps laid out there.

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In this tutorial, I'll be explaining how to set up Nginx's latest mainline version as well as Letsencrypt Certbot on Debian 11.

This is something a few friends and I have been needing to do recently, and I wanted to make sure there was an easy to understand resource to go through the setup as it isn't as easy as simply running sudo apt install nginx.

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