Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month
A developer moves their homepage from GitHub Pages and Cloudflare Pages to a self-hosted OpenBSD server on DigitalOcean, drawn by nostalgia for the DIY web. This guide walks through uploading a custom miniroot image, creating a basic $4 droplet, and installing OpenBSD 7.9 with full disk encryption. It covers essential setup steps, including SSH configuration and trimming install sets, and notes the caveat of manually entering the encryption passphrase via web console on reboot.
Free and easy is cool, and I understand that writing software full-time leaves us wanting absolutely nothing to do with computers after we punch out, but lately I have been missing the do-it-yourself web that I grew up with.