I want to play around a bit with Gemini and start building my own blog/tutorial site or whatever comes to my mind idk. So any recommendations? (if possible not only based on price, privacy/foss are important principles for me, is there’s something like that).
Gemini is pretty light, why not hosting it at home?
I like gandi but they are based in France so not the best privacy wise.
I want to host it at home, but first I’ll need a domain name
Ha. You’re just looking for a registrar. Gandi is nice then :)
Thanks, I think that is one of the finalist. (:
Had good experience with iwantmyname.com, pretty easy to use interface for domain administration.
I have been using Porkbun for my domains for the last year or so and I’m happy. They are fairly recent and support was really helpful and fast (and a little oopsie with my proxy card, twice, because I’m stupid lol) and I believe their prices are pretty good too.
Now, take this with a big grain of salt because my other experiences are namecheap and dominios.pt (registrar for .pt domains), so my experience isn’t that great.
I’d say not to worry too much about the registrar, as long as it provides WHOIS privacy. You usually can kinda cheese the data you give them 🙃
I use gandi and they’re fine I guess. Do note that on Gemini we use self signed certificated which are trusted on first use (as opposed to how the web uses “certificate authorities”). Its also suggested you set a very long expiration date for your cert, like 100 years. Heres some info about it: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/tls-tutorial.gmi
You can manually create the certs with
sudo openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 36500 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout /etc/ssl/gemini/private/example.com.key -out /etc/ssl/gemini/certs/example.com.crtor depending on the webserver you pick some of them will automatically generate certs for you on first run. Anyway always cool to see more people getting into gemini! Many of us publish our stuff on gemini://warmedal.se/~antenna/ these daysI bookmarked it! I will give it an eye when possible!
PS: I also love seeing more ppl on gemini so I decided to make my own capsule :)
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(I do not know if this question was made before. If it was I’m sorry and I will delete it in order to do not disturb anyone)
