{"id":17435,"date":"2020-03-02T11:20:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T05:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/?p=17435"},"modified":"2020-03-03T18:17:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T12:47:58","slug":"create-your-own-blog-for-5-dollars-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/development\/create-your-own-blog-for-5-dollars-a-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Create Your Own Blog for 5 Dollars a Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blogging about tech is fun. Having your own blog allows you to help others, polish your skills, and maybe get you a job.<\/p>\n

Blogging on popular tech sites is great. Obviously you\u2019re reading this on Hackernoon, so you know I do it. It\u2019s fun. But having your OWN site to manage your content is important as well. This gives you the freedom to do things exactly as you want, try out weird applications and patterns, and experiment.<\/p>\n

If you follow this tutorial, you can have your own statically hosted blog for $5 a month. All you need is a domain name.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019ll start by creating a virtual machine (they call it droplet).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Click \u201cCreate\u201d and select \u201cdroplet\u201d.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m choosing\u00a0FreeBSD<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for this, and if you decide to choose Linux, the instructions are pretty similar.<\/p>\n

Choose the\u00a0$5 per month<\/strong>\u00a0option:<\/p>\n

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If this is a new blog, it will be plenty of power. Select the data center region that\u2019s closest to you.<\/p>\n

For authentication, I use ssh. This just means you\u2019ll need to generate keys on your machine and upload the keys to Digital Ocean. But it\u2019s a far more secure option for communicating with your machine.<\/p>\n

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Note:\u00a0<\/strong>Here\u2019s a good tutorial on\u00a0<\/em>how to generate ssh keys<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in Windows, Linux, or Mac.<\/em><\/p>\n

Add in your SSH keys, and you\u2019re ready to go.<\/p>\n

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