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I bought thod.dev a while back because I wanted a slightly shorter domain to play with than the one you're at. In light of what's happening in the US I'm also thinking about starting to get onto the self hosting train. These are my baby steps in that direction.

After browsing european-alternatives.eu and reddit a bit I settling on a €4 a month VPS from netcup to start.

I set up the DNS entries in Cloudfare. Eeek not quite an EU alternative but baby steps.

Installed nginx and caddy. Took me a while to understand how to configure caddy through systemctl but it's here.

I also put a gitea instance at git.thod.dev to test that out.

I haven't quite decided what I'll use this for yet. Various experiments that require more than just the static file hosting I've been using github pages.