Run a Ghost blog on your server
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David Rutland is a tinkerer and a dilettante. He buys domains on a whim and runs them from a Raspberry Pi behind the couch..
The internet is a bleak place in the third decade of the 21st century. Away from the walled-garden shouting matches and ego-stroking of the social media sites, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the bulk of the web is an endless desert of SEO optimised buying guides, VPN affiliate sites and filth.
Well, that’s our experience of it anyway. Gone are the days of stumbling around from site to site, following links from personal blogs to whatever whimsical sites the authors care to link to. But it doesn’t need to be that way. Break away from the usual routine and well-trodden paths, and you’ll find that there are still a few pockets of genuine authentic content, written by authors who want to document their lives without plastering it across Facebook for a handful of Likes, or document their hobbies and passions without selling out to a huge media conglomerate (hey, that’s us!–ED).
Yes folks, independent blogging is back with a vengeance, and with your shiny new VPS, you can be a part of it too! Imagine the delight of a total stranger as they stumble across your blog and are sucked down into your thoughts, musings and oh-so-witty take on life, politics, technology and pets.
Picture their glee as, having bookmarked your words of wisdom and shared it with their friends, they move on to yet more discoveries through your expertly curated set of links to other blogs worth their time.
So what is a blog? You
