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Setup your Linux Server

State: draft

Note: This shall serve as a collection of all relevant commands, so that one might save some time searching the world wide web.

USER and OS: Configure your own user and setup daily OS upgrades.

# Change root pw:
passwd
# add personal user 
adduser USERNAME
# add user to sudo group
adduser USERNAME sudo
# install unattended upgrades package...
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install unattended-upgrades
# ... and enable
sudo dpkg-reconfigure --priority=low unattended-upgrades

FIREWALL: Install firewall and setup. You may want to change SSH port. Make sure to first allow ssh (so that you will not be excluded from your own server), allow the new port and once connected successfully, deny ssh.

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Strato Linux VPS (Linux-V10) and caprover – no happy end

TL;DR: caprover does NOT run on Strato Linux VServer (e.g. Linux V10). Think about nginx reverse-proxy, certbot and docker-compose instead.

The whole idea of running my own server was to install caprover and then be able to easliy create and push web applications. However, it did not work as intended…

This is a note to everybody that tries to install caprover, a self hosted PaaS (something like heroku) on a Linux VPS hosted on strato: It does not work.

The Strato VPS Linux servers, e.g. Linux V10, seem to be docker containers themselves (This might be the reason, why one can rent such a server at the low prize of 5 EUR/month). Caprover however would need to be installed on a non-dockerized host machine. Inside a docker container, the swarm and networking capabilities seem to be restricted.

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Hello world!

So I always wanted my own blog. Here it is: Tada!

I intend to collect useful information that I searched tediously in the internet, so that it may be more easily accessible. For example, how to setup and secure a private linux server, how to run docker containers on it and setup a reverse proxy and use letsencrypt certificates.

Another part might be some interesting projects I am working on.

So this is it: Hello world!