Finally! I’ve come up with some spare time and moved the blog to HTTPS and to the cloud! Hopefully, this will make my life a bit easier (managing the server and posts).

What have I done?

  1. Spinned up a new VM (centos7).
  2. Dockerized the blog based on Jekyll (dockerized as in use docker-compose and already premade jekyll docker image.
  3. Hardened the VM (firewalld, set the rules, etc.)
  4. Set-up Nginx and configure Let’s Encrypt.
  5. Added some cool colors to .bashrc to know on which server I reside after SSH-ing.
  6. Oh, and sshd has also been a bit hardened.

Hopefully, this will do for some time. There is still lots of things to do, like automatic backup to Koofr, automatic (cronjob-based) Jekyll rebuilds, wire up additional domains via Let’s Encrypt, do some monitoring of the site, etc.

Sources of this site are available here.

All these will be described here soon.

Cheers!