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< What's a good Gemini server these days?
I like to talk about tech, it's something fun for me, ha! Even better if I'm having a cold beer 🍻 or a red wine 🍷
When I was 12 years old I was playing with HTTP, Visual Basic, IRC and some other stuff, but not with real servers since they were expensive and we used Dial-up at 56 kbps so having a home server 24/7 was difficult at that time. Now I can play with a VPS, Node, Django, Go, and some other languages/platforms/technologies for the sake of it, or even as a part of my job. So keep it up, I think is a nice journey!
Going back to Gemini, what are you trying to host? Static files... Something created by a script language?
Do you already have a VPS? Is it possible for you to spend 5 USD / month + a domain?
I have my personal domain + VPS for many experiments, so spending about 80 dollars a year is not that bad for the learning and amusement I get.
Going back to Gemini, what are you trying to host? Static files... Something created by a script language?
Static files. The only thing created by a script language is an Atom feed.
I'm definitely OK with a VPS and a domain, I mean, I have both. Thing is, 15 years ago I'd have *so* spent three evenings doing some squeaky-clean OpenBSD chroot + <whatever Gemini server there is> setup. But that's not as fun as it used to be. Based on my last experience of setting up a Docker instance with a Gemini server, I'd say that I can fit tinkering with Docker again on my "fun things to do" list somewhere between "beating myself to a pulp with a small teaspoon" and "drinking cinnamon-flavoured sulphuric acid".
Obviously some amount of pain is unavoidable, I'm just curious if anyone has any advice on minimizing that amount :-).