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Month: June 2026

Self Hosting – How much shield is too much shield?

So, with the new home, I decided to wire the whole place with new network cable (there was none originally) and I was not a huge fan of having a wire going from the back of the first floor to the front of that first floor, very “feet hookable” problem in fact. So I decided […]

Ellie
Last modified on June 17, 2026

Self Hosting – Blog, once again, with SSL.

Finally managed to figure out what was wrong. so guys, enjoy the fresh SSL config for the site! 😛 Basically, the thing I was doing, I was trying to forward in nginx proxy manager, the call to port 443 on HTTPS, but the service internally does run on HTTP 80. so, OBVIOUSLY, nginx was trying […]

Ellie
Last modified on June 16, 2026

Self Hosting – Blog, Now *WITHOUT* SSL (sigh)

Welp, with the new VM hosts and all that fun stuff, I broke my SSL setup for my blog. I really need to start adding more documentation on Bookstack to track how I fix things… for the future. 😭

Ellie
Published on June 14, 2026