Hello World
If you are reading this, you are most likely viewing it on https://foswret.com. That is if I remember to pay for the domain and server.
For the longest time, I had been hosting my personal website through GitHub Pages. This worked well, but I was unhappy with the domain name being constrained to .github.io. I could have simply bought a domain and had it direct to the .github.io address, but if I was going to go through the trouble of buying a domain I might as well rent a VPS as well.
In terms of cost, the domain and VPS were not much. For this first year, the VPS + Domain is around $30.67, which is about $2.56/month. For every year here on out, it is $38.98, which is about $3.25/month. Paying this small fee per month is honestly a better allocation of funds than buying a subscription to a service that purposely blocks functionality as an incentive to buy in.
Everything on this website is built with Hugo. Im also now hosting a git server in conjunction with this website. I’ve got a few things hosted there as of right now like my dotfiles and two programs, but I hope that I’ll come to host many more projects on there. I will eventually host this website’s theme as well once I feel like everything looks good. I did most of the nginx set up through following the guides on landchad.net, which allowed me to easily get everything set up.
So, that is how this website came to be. I may be the only soul to read this website, but at least it has been a rewarding experience setting this up and grants me a little more ownership in my online presence.