Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month
A technical guide on how to host a personal website on OpenBSD using DigitalOcean infrastructure. The author explains the process of uploading a custom miniroot image to bypass standard distribution limitations.
Why it matters
It highlights the growing interest in 'do-it-yourself' computing and the use of open-source operating systems for personal hosting outside of major cloud platforms.
My homepage now runs on OpenBSD with httpd(8) and Let's Encrypt via acme-client(1) . I previously hosted it on GitHub Pages and then eventually moved to Cloudflare Pages because both options were free and easy. 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. Some of my favorite times growing up included installing and configuring UNIX-based operating systems and spending hours trying to understand how computers worked. I even met one of my closest friends online through a FreeBSD UNIX shell account forum more than 20 years ago.
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