Category: Containerization
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The VPS Was Already Full
The short version: I set out to add an OpenTTD dedicated server to the same 1GB Linode that runs this blog. The blog is containerized WordPress behind an Apache reverse proxy. I never installed the game. Instead I spent an afternoon learning exactly how full a “full” VPS is, why the obvious memory-reclaim move did…
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Containerizing My Corner of the Internet
I’ve been self-hosting my blog on a Linode VPS for a while now. Bare metal WordPress, Apache, and MySQL. It worked. It was fine. But I’d been hearing about containers for years and decided it was time to stop nodding along and figure it out. Honestly what turned me off the most about it was…
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Containerizing My WordPress Blog: Part 2 – Exporting the Live Site
These are my notes, to help remind me what I did…. The goal Get everything out of the live WordPress install and into a staging directory that Docker can work with. Nothing here touches the live site. It’s all copies. Create the project directory Get the config files in place I had docker-compose.yml, env.example, and…