During the years, my blog hosting has gone back and forth between a self-configured VPS and shared hosting. Thanks to a special WordCamp Europe 2015 offer, for the past couple of years I’ve been on Siteground shared hosting, which has worked fine. I certainly have no complaints: the site has been fast, setup was easy with free SSL, but… a nerd’s gotta be nerdy. As the subscription for my shared hosting was about to expire, I looked around for options, and decided to go for a small VPS on DigitalOcean for $5/month (yes that’s a referral link). One reason I chose them was their comprehensive set of tutorials, but I was still suprised how quickly and painlessly I got my virtual server set up with Ubuntu, Nginx, SSL and WordPress, in just a couple of hours. Simply by following instructions, so I can’t claim to be very clever.

Let’s see how long this lasts.