THIS-SERVER(7)         Miscellaneous Information Manual         THIS-SERVER(7)

NAME
     this server - where the hell are we

DESCRIPTION
     I've finally got myself a real place on The Internet!  I've got an IP
     address and everything.  So, all the things you need a server to do I can
     now do.

   HTTP(s)
     The website itself is served by OpenBSD httpd, and everything (except
     /cgi-bin/*) is static.

   Stagit
     git.bvnf.space is generated using stagit(1).  I learnt how to do this
     from a number of sources:
     https://dilyn.cc/blog/Server-Git
     https://git-bruh.duckdns.org/self-hosting-git.html

     You can also anonymously clone the repos, which is powered by
     git-daemon(1).

   /cgi-bin/*
     As mentioned above, there is some cgi going on (well, currently only
     /cgi-bin/up and whatever /cgi-bin/a.out is at the moment) and I'm
     interested in writing more down this alleyway.  Forget LAMP, use BCHS:
     https://learnbchs.org

   IRC
     I'm running pounce(1) so that I can keep connected to the one channel I'm
     interested in.

   catsitd(8)
     To look after pounce(1).

   XMPP
     prosody(8) is running, but I don't use XMPP much. yet. (at all).  What? I
     can put what I like on here.

   DigitalOcean
     This server is running OpenBSD, hosted on a DigitalOcean VPS.
     DigitalOcean doesn't actually have OpenBSD as an option, so to install it
     I did the following:

     o   Choose any operating system to begin with - it doesn't matter what; I
         chose FreeBSD.

     o   Turn it off, then from the droplet's control panel, go to Recovery
         and choose "Boot from Recovery ISO" , and reboot.

     o   Using the web-view console, select option 6 for a recovery shell.

         Now you've got the equivalent of a live usb environment.

     o   Download the OpenBSD minirootXX.fs, dd(1) it to the harddisk, then
         reboot into it normally and follow the instructions.

     o   Easy!

     If you want, you can use my DigitalOcean referral link:
     https://m.do.co/c/6c97af319d64.

   A blog?
     Finally, I might now actually write a Blog, which is something I've been
     wanting to do for a while.  This (first) post is written a la
     causal.agency style; produced from mdoc(7) source available from
     https://git.bvnf.space/site/ .

AUTHORS
     phoebos <ben@bvnf.space>

Ben's Space                     August 22, 2021                    Ben's Space