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+title: "Online!"
+date: 2023-02-18T12:58:09-08:00
+description: Web Development - Administration
+tags: ["Web Development","Administration"]
+---
+
+Hopefully you can see this because that means that I didn\'t mess
+anything up when updating the site! I\'ll quickly recap what I did over
+the last week and clarify what\'s in the pipeline for this upcoming
+week.
+
+So I ended up destroying and remaking the
+[Vultr](https://www.vultr.com/)
+VPS **\[Virtual Private Server if I didn\'t
+clarify that previously\]** so that I could have a fresh, clean
+environment to start messing around in. I decided to go with their
+smallest, and cheapest plan to start things off **\[I think it can
+handle the traffic that I expect to start \"pouring\" in\]**.
+
+
+{{< image_sc "/vultr_1.png" "Vultr Pricing" "Vultr Cloud Pricing"  >}}
+
+
+I found this
+[video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B-4RG8Q0aw)
+that explained how to calculate how much
+needed bandwidth I needed to budget for. Again I don\'t think I need
+much **\[something tells me I\'m the only one checking in on this
+website 100 times a day\]**. I stuck with a
+[Debian](https://www.debian.org/)
+distribution for no reason in particular
+other than it\'s what I used previously on other VPSs **\[if your
+unfamiliar with Linux and Linux distributions I\'ll make some intro to
+Linux guides in the future that\'ll explain all the common nerd
+jargon\]**.
+
+I grabbed the domain name from
+[dynadot](https://www.dynadot.com/)
+and changed the DNS records to have it point
+to the IP of the VPS. I\'ll write up a full guide for this in a bit
+**\[honestly it\'s pretty easy\]**. I then installed nGinx, changed the
+config files to point to the html/css files, and started the service
+**\[kinda skipped the nitty gritty but again, guide incoming\]**.
+
+I was able to visit the site at this point from a client device but
+still had to set up
+[SSL](https://www.ssl.com/faqs/what-is-https/)
+**\[Secure Sockets Layer\]** so that the
+connection was encrypted. Apparently it was pretty uncommon in the past
+to have encrypted connections on personal websites but that was changed
+with the help of the [EFF](https://www.eff.org/)
+with [let\'s
+encrypt](https://letsencrypt.org/)
+which offers free, open certificates
+**\[pretty cool of them honestly\]**. To make things even easier they
+also provide a python script(?) called
+[certbot](https://certbot.eff.org/)
+which automates the process of obtaining one
+of these ssl certificates. After I ran it I got the cool green lock icon
+in the address bar and was feeling pretty cool myself! **:)**
+
+Those were the major updates for this week. Next week I\'ll be looking
+into hosting a git server to upload my code **\[including anything that
+I create for this website ie. html/css/scripting stuff\]** and a git
+visualiser. Hosting a git server seems easy enough but finding the right
+visualiser might need a bit more research. Right now the most promising
+candidate is
+[stagit](https://codemadness.org/stagit.html)
+which is a static git page generator. Hope
+that works out.
+
+The stretch goal for this week is the possibility to host videos with
+**\[maybe?\]** a [peertube](https://joinpeertube.org/)
+instance. Not sure how much of a pain and/or
+the bandwidth limitations will throttle the experience too much but it
+sounds useful to post, even short, videos demonstrating processes
+explicitly **\[if a picture is 1000 words than what does that make a
+video\]**.
+
+That\'s the update for the week.
+
+Next *TODOS! **\[Can be updated throughout the week\]***
+
+-   Look into hosting git server
+-   Set up gitolite for git permissions
+-   Set up stagit for git visualization
+-   Possibly Peertube for embedded videos
+