{"id":1511,"date":"2026-04-17T15:17:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/?p=1511"},"modified":"2026-04-18T19:03:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T02:03:21","slug":"self-hosted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/self-hosted\/","title":{"rendered":"Self Hosted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/linuxmint.com\/web\/img\/logo.svg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While in Guanajuato 2025-2026, I relied on the Chromebook Linux server that I had set up last <a href=\"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2025\/09\/10\/spice-of-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">September<\/a>. All worked fine from Mexico until it didn&#8217;t, but it turned out to be relatively simple to resolve remotely, fortunately. The biggest unresolved problem with the Chromebook setup was that it could not survive an unattended restart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I decided to convert the Chromebook into a pure Linux server. That was a simple process but involved opening the laptop to disable write protection on the firmware and rewriting said firmware. The fear of breaking something made a simple process somewhat stressful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I chose to install the latest version of <a href=\"https:\/\/linuxmint.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Linux Mint<\/a>. With the help of Google search, I followed the instructions provided by the large Linux community to setup a LAMP environment with my personal applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today I moved my blog from <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wordpress.com<\/a> to this self-hosted server. All is working fine as far as I can tell, except that in the two migrations I have lost photos, which I will attempt to recover over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While in Guanajuato 2025-2026, I relied on the Chromebook Linux server that I had set up last September. All worked fine from Mexico until it didn&#8217;t, but it turned out to be relatively simple to resolve remotely, fortunately. The biggest unresolved problem with the Chromebook setup was that it could not survive an unattended restart. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/self-hosted\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Self Hosted&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1511"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1521,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions\/1521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}