Self-hosting and Coolify

Yesterday was the end of two gruelling days trying to setup Coolify on a Hetzner server.

First, Hetzner servers' Ubuntu update mirrors were syncing, which meant I couldn't run apt upgrade on the server (because there were errors).

I created and deleted a dozen servers in the process (good thing is you are not charged).

Then, I got all messed up with SSH keys, or so I thought.

I was following a tutorial on Youtube, and well, I was a little bit impatient.

After setting up the server using a cloud config file, and as soon as I saw the server had been created and was live, I wanted to immediately SSH into it.

It of course gave me errors. I needed to wait until packages were updated and all commands were run before I could log in.

A few minutes later, I could easily log in and continue with the process of installing Coolify.

Now that it's installed, I will attempt to move denmarkforexpats.com from Render to my own server and see how that goes.

Next up will be jobsinenglish.dk, which has a few more moving pieces with redis, celery, flower on top of Django and Postgres.