This newbie who just celebrated 100 days of #selfhosting was able to install #Apache and #Varnish on her #Ubuntu VPS (to prevent the "Mastodon Hug of Death" for link preview cards on her self-hosted Ghost blog). She's very proud of herself for all the sudo commands she successfully ran today. And she's weirded out talking about herself in the third person, so: I did it YAY.
LOVE LOVE LOVE this Linux / self-hosting journey I'm on. Thank you for all your support & encouragement
@zerkman I have no idea what Hitch is so please do tell ! I’m very very green and I may give the impression of expertise but I’m not a sysadmin and I barely know what I’m doing. I’m mostly copying and pasting commands in Terminal
@_elena Basically, Hitch manages all the encrypted TLS traffic (the security layer that is being used by HTTPS), then you don't need to manage encryption on the apache/nginx side.
Being able to handle all your private keys in a single place is very comfortable.
It might be possible your hosting service is already managing encryption for you, that being the reason you don't actually have to bother about that.
https://www.varnish-software.com/developers/tutorials/terminate-tls-varnish-hitch/