> Self-hosting a site is an act of faith. I wonder if it is an act of hubris. Yet, paying someone else to host a site when I have the necessary hardware just lying around seems like unacceptable waste of Omnissiah's gifts.
> Setting up the hardware took perhaps half a day, this was done previously when I had ample free time. Software side was more of a challenge. Machine spirit configurations in regards to virtualization, virtual server, while not completely new, wasn't exactly something I have done often.
> The DNS propagation rite took forty minutes. I chose to interpret it as the noosphere acknowledging my existence, in its own time, at its own pace. Patience is the first virtue of the systems administrator. Yet mine was admittedly wearing thin on the user interface.
> TLS certificate renewal is automated now. Before it was automated it was a source of considerable anxiety. Praise be to certbot and the machine spirit that tends it. All update rituals should be automated as of now.
> Yet despite these efforts, I am not at ease with this. Further work remains to be done to archieve true serenity and kernel security.