I wanted an email address on one of my own domains, but, frankly, I didn’t want to pay for it. Cloudflare Email Routing and a regular Gmail account work pretty well together for this. Getting mail into Gmail was easy. However, sending from the same custom address and ensuring I could be a proper email citizen was where I ran into snags.
I finally moved Explosive Cloud from WordPress to Hugo on Cloudflare Pages. This site started on WordPress because WordPress is easy to get going. Install it, pick a theme, start writing. For a long time that was good enough.
Setup Docker Once you install the OS of your choosing, you will want to install Docker/Docker Compose. For this, we choose Centos 9 Stream, although the steps will be similar under any OS you choose.
If you haven’t installed PHP, Apache, and MySQL, head over to this post first to see how to get that setup. I like to start to create a WordPress site by getting the WordPress database setup and a user account created specifically to access the newly created WordPress database.
Sometimes you are stuck with an older OS. You can still get the most out of your server. Here we outline how to get a fully functional Wordpress installation running on Ubuntu 16.04. First, we start with the basics - get your Ubuntu updated.
