Trying VPS

Tuesday - 24th Dec 2024

Just bought a VPS, reminds me of that guy. Its been a while since I spoke to him funnily, complete cut off since he went into his schizo era. Fully schizo. I already found it annoying, but I had to draw the line when he went schizo rambling and threatened my own security with it. Also he was accusing me of being an agent so it had to be done.

Just bought this VPS so trying to figure out what I should do with it. Firstly I want to know how the ports are already forwarded, or how I can acutally already route traffic to this server. Can I? I tried CURLing it and it didnt work, but SSH connection worked. So I want to actually figure out how the different network connections work firstly. Why can I SSH this but cannot CURL this server?

I’ve always wanted my own server so its pretty fun to have this. I will most likely have to get a domain in the future to make it work out properly. Firstly I think I’ll have to setup a proper server on this.. understand what NGINX/Apache does (they’re actually web servers no and load balancers?). I suppose they open up your ports for inbound traffic, and your web framework / application is the code that runs? I need to properly understand where the lines are drawn. Does gunicorn also belong to the same category?

I want to write my own web server first, just to see how that would work. Or just understand how they work in general, but before that I’ll have to figure out how the different connection types work or even are. Then I’ll write a basic Golang wep-app based on these frameworks or write my own web-server first. After that I’d like to develop and deploy my personal portfolio with a blog aswell.