New VPS, Who Dis?

If you are reading this post, you are now consuming HTML that is being served up by my own VPS rather than from GitHub Pages. Hooray for independence!

When I first re-booted this blog, I copied a quick and easy GitHub Actions workflow to publish to GitHub Pages whenever I pushed new commits to main. At the time, my primary concern was having a public-facing URL to share my NYC MTA Subway Hourly Ridership data analysis project. Shortly after that post, I did go through a couple rounds of interviews for a Data Analyst position with PayPal before the opening was cancelled so I think it’s safe to assume that at least one other person besides me has actually read it. (Mission accomplished, I guess … ?)

Now that I have finished my CS capstone project and graduation is just around the corner, it’s time to not only finish putting together a portfolio of my work, but to also focus my time on the types of projects I find most interesting. A VPS for self-hosting my web presence(s) along with a handful of other services and useful items is something I have been planning for a while now, so it feels exciting to have put even this little bit together during my first free evening in some time.

There isn’t anything impressive going on here — just Debian on a Hetzner VPS running Traefik via Docker. This blog is the only thing I’ve set up and tested so far but I plan to move my musician website over here as well. Putting up a demo of my capstone project is also high up on my to-do list, but not until I do a complete re-write of the front-end.

That’s all for now, but stay tuned for more incremental changes as I continue to landscape my own little corner of the web. Cheers!