I’m stuck at a crossroads between what to do with my own. Not sure if I want to make it more of a documentation/wiki style site for everything I’m interested in or if I want to treat it more like a blog. I’ve got it hooked up to ActivityPub now and I’m intrigued by the possibilities that brings to the table, but I don’t think I’d want it to replace my Mastodon account, which puts it in a weird sort of limbo.
So I want to know, what do you use your own website for?
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Just basic information about myself and maybe a thing or two I’ve done on the Internet.
Someday if I get the time or the server resources, I’d add subdomains to it to host other stuff, for example “lemmy.example.com”, while “example.com” would just be the basic information, and probably a directory to all the other subdomain stuff.
A reverse proxy will solve this for you in an afternoon of setup :)
I don’t have anything hosted just yet, but when I do, I’ll look into a reverse proxy
Depends, my setup is basically the same BUT:
When you access example.com, you see a generic site tells g you this is my Domain and used for some personal projects. On it is a link to blog.example.com (obviously a blog) and other public services like search.example.com (being a searxng instance).
But there’s a fuckton of subdomains that are not linked like nextcloud.example.com, myTelegrambot.example.com, etc.
Also not all are hosted on the same server and some subdomains point to other IPs. For some services I do have another domain, but in general, they’re just grouped with some logic.
Not sure what a reverse proxy would offer me here…
I actually just got started yesterday. And by “started” I mean, I’m currently creating a graphic to help explain our students at work a specific concept and if that’s online, I’m done with it for the moment. If I find more concepts that could use a graphic, I’ll obviously add more, though.
I plan to just throw it up on Codeberg Pages or Neocities or something.
A friend gave me the best career advice years ago: make a personal portfolio site.
He said nobody really reads through resumes anymore. A portfolio with lots of screenshots or photos, and a very short paragraph works best. Also tack on a resume for those who ask for it.
Organized by category, date, or whatever makes sense. You can use a blogging engine like Wordpress, or a static hosting platform like Jeckyll or Hugo. Assign it a simple domain (like .work or .portfolio). Keep it updated with latest clippings.
Then whenver someone asks, just point them at the site. Print it on a biz card, make custom stickers, etc.
If you want free hosting, check out Github Pages.
Mine points to a Tumblr blog that I don’t really use anymore because I’m posting here instead. I ought to turn it into a more professional portfolio page and use some of the other ideas in this thread. I have email at that domain thanks to my legacy free Google Workspace I’ve had for like 15 years.
Mine mostly exists as a statement that I exist. It was supposed to be a blog and contact page but I never actually write anything for the blog and nobody ever tries to contact me except for spam.
You can have several for different purposes and audiences.
I use my domain for two purposes:
- I host my own NextCloud instance, so that I don’t have to put my data on someone else’s computer.
- I have a blog (WordPress) with less that a dozen posts. Just random stuff that interested me and I got myself to actually write up.
My website is just
cowsayquotingfortune, decorated withlolcatand converted to HTML withaha.It’s literally a bash script.
I guess this depends largely on what you do for a living. I use mine as a personal portfolio. It allows me to create galleries of work that can’t be made public. I can also create a new gallery with specific curated content if I need to for a specific job application. I also host my CV and some basic info in my About page. I could blog on it too but I’m not a blog type of person.
+1 here, just a personal portfolio for my books. Or what I call a “site vitrine” in French (showcase website) so it is a very simple mostly static website.
I host the privacy policies for my mobile apps, a consulting site for mobile related consulting work, and a personal start page full of links I use daily.
I have a few; my main site gives details about me, has a page dedicated to hating shitty companies and practices, and links to my clan’s website. Has a bunch of subdomains but it’s essentially “tell me about yourself” in webpage form.
Mine is a blog with 0 posts. I want to share but I don’t have anything to share. The projects that I don’t aren’t anything impressive and I don’t take any photos or document my chaotic process.
I’m pretty shit at writing so I feel like I have to have some interesting content. The target audience is me in the future so idk why am so hesitant to post something.
Mine is a front end for hosted services. Nextcloud, jitsi, and the like.
It’s a basic about me type thing with links to all my stuff and a contact form (which invokes my self hosted and homemade email sending API). It also has Prometheus metrics which I consume on my “global overview” dashboard (everything happening with all my stuff at once) so I know if somebody has visited. Pretty cosy.
I’ve not got anything online yet, but Andy Matuschak’s framing of “working with the garage door up” has been pretty influential on how I think about this. Matuschak’s approach is also interesting because he has a regular website, but the page I’ve linked is on his notes subsection.
