What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? (2018)
uglyduck.ca
uglyduck.ca
https://padiracinnovation.org/News
It is hosted on a 5 years old laptop that is connected to the home LAN. The home modem (Orange Livebox) and the 24Mbits VDSL connection seems to bear the load nicely. So far (two years ) it has been rock solid, no accidental down time.
The software is a modified HTMLy CMS [0]. I added statistics about users, an app for people with ALS and a proof of concept of a tool to design peptide vaccines.
I also tried to refactor the software with one and only one clear purpose by file. While this is reminiscent of object programming, I didn't feel that the gain of rewriting the whole would worth the pain.
The PHP code is edited by hand with Gedit and the OS is Trisquel Linux.
[0] https://htmly.com (not maintained since years)