I'm bad at doing web: The Second Chapter

Bit the bullet and got myself a VPS for a whole year. I knew installing a web service like Pleroma wasn't gonna be as easy as "click here and here and boom", but bohohohohoy did it turn out way more complicated than that.

My problem is that I've still got space on a shared hosting with an active domain name, and I wanted the VPS to broadcast Pleroma there. I didn't know beforehand that this and the VPS are two services separate from one another, but uh, yeah, they are.

This got kiiiiiiiiind of resolved after I've been told (by the customer support guy, not by anyone in the chats) that I could redirect VPS to the hosting domain by editing the DNS records, which... worked, I guess? Except instead of the usual "congrats, your website is live!" placeholder, I'm met with the 502 Bad Gateway error from nginx. Changing configs and finding solutions on the internet didn't help so far.

...yeah, I probably could've been doing things more productive than that.

Our city's being invaded more frequently than before. Third convoy of Russian tech destroyed several...

Our city's being invaded more frequently than before. Third convoy of Russian tech destroyed several tens of kilometers away from where I live, and the air raid siren was sounding for six whole hours tonight.

I couldn't have a decent night in the shelter. In fact, I was starting to lose my shit over being sleep-deprived. God helps us all.

Tomorrow in Russo-Ukrainian war news

Zorro rises from his eternal slumber and files a lawsuit against Kremlin for plagiarism.

I'm bad at doing web

I'm still a noob with webhosting, who can't understand the difference between basic bitch web hosting and hosting on a dedicated server. That's something I've realised as I've decided to install a federated service. Just a federated service, as a warmup.

Lots of required software plus PostgreSQL. Fair.

It's possible to get in via SSH, "to run binary programs" and such, except no commands I run there work. No apt-get, no git, nothing. Only simple file operations. Makes me wonder what the purpose of all that is, exactly.

Looked into renting a dedicated server from the same provider, tried to get a configuration that'd simultaneously be cheap and provide more than enough storage space... and I can't rent it due to the current world situation.

Well, uh...

oh hello

oh hello