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my adventures in #selfhosting - day 94 
Self-hosted Ghost site unveiling - take 2 
I'm finally ready to show you my self-hosted #Ghost site: installed on my own, with command lines, with a lot of patience and after many attempts (including 4 VPS wipes).
It took me a while to migrate all the posts, media and members, but here we go, finally:
Thanks to your wonderful advice and help (especially by @shollyethan) I got the courage to edit my nginx config and I'm waiting to see if the redirects from the old posts work. It's always DNS... and nginx 
And this is take 2 because I swear this self-hosted Ghost site is slightly cursed and the first time around as soon as I edited the URL of an old Mastodon toot, the site went offline. This happened twice today. Won't touch any URLs and will metaphorically sage the VPS to clear its energy 'cause it's a little cursed 
@elena loads well and quick and looks really lovely on mobile! Great info on gotosocial as well thanks
@bradley aw thank you Bradley!
It took SO MUCH WORK.
I'm not sure if you followed my misadventures, but it took me about 18 hours of work (I know from my pomodoro tracker) and I had to discard everything 2 days before the previous unveiling... because I discovered at the last second that the Ghost installation via YunoHost was on mariaDB, which was flagged as discontinued, support-wise.
I had to get a second VPS (Ubuntu this time) and install everything via command lines, which took a lot of trial and error. And then I had to re-import individual media files for 33 blog posts.
In short, I'm glad this second time things are working and on a good track