Resources

https://landchad.net/nextcloud/ https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/installation/nginx.html

Motivations

I am a terribly organized person. I have multiple notebooks with todo lists, random sticky notes, loose papers, and physical calendars all scattered across my desk. In an attempt to streamline this, Nextcloud’s calendar app looked very appealing.

Needless to say, I want to own my data, and that is why I didn’t take to easy route of using Google Calendar. I try to distance myself from Google as much as possible, even opting for custom roms such as GrapheneOS. I don’t like my data tracked/stored/sold by third parties without my best interest, which is a big reason for my interest in self hosting.

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Resources

https://landchad.net/

Getting a Domain

Bought a .xyz domain from namecheap

sideisec.xyz

Getting a hosting provider

I first searched through Vultr (link here) offerings, but after having trouble verifying my payment information, I chose to go with Digital Ocean (link here). Based on my research they were the most user friendly, and had a $4 a month offering (1 vCPU, 0.5GB ram, and 10GB disk, free IPv4 & IPv6 address)

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Hello, I am a recent college graduate with a Bachelors of Science in Cybersecurity. The purpose of this website is to document my personal projects, particularly in self-hosted services.

Data collection and user privacy are topics I have been conscious of for a few years now, and are the reason I decided to pursue a degree in cybersecurity. Today, people are chronically online, and it is my belief that the technology is what is using them, not the other way around. In my search to find a way out of this hamster wheel of being the product, I came across the ideas of the Free Software Foundation and websites like privacytools.io. I am building this website in an effort to make my own corner of the internet, and share the process with others.

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