Posts made by Felix

Thank you everyone for the clear explanations as always.

Hello Cloudron community,

I was wondering. is it possible to set the following to backup to Google Drive or Icloud, etc:

Also, if I hit clean backup here. Does that mean that all the backups in my server will be deleted?

Thank you as always.

@nebulon Thank you. So I removed the www. cname record from Digital Ocean and added a www redirect on Cloudron.

I'm also hoping that I didn't break anything by messing around with all the options and turning things off and on continuously. It should be fine right?

Hello Clouron community,

I did the following just recently:

By doing this, I can now access the www.mydomain.com for my Ghost blog. But, by any chance do you think I'm doing anything incorrectly by approaching it this way? I tried changing the CNAME on Digital Ocean and it wasn't working that way.

Now if I go to www.mydomain.com (example) the site shows up. It should be fine moving forward, right?

Sorry this might sound confusing, but the https:// version of the domain has always worked. It's just the www. version that wasn't, though that seems to be fixed, but I wonder what caused this issue?

@nebulon Sounds good. It's just that eventually I'm going to register a domain on infomaniak and use their web mail services.

My current email address is temporary. I just want to make sure I have that option, before I build my castle.

Hello everyone,

I noticed that my email is pretty much set in my Cloudron.io app store account. What if I want to change that email in one year. Will I be able to do so?

Thank you.

@girish said in Anyway to change the Cloudron app store password?:

@Felix https://cloudron.io/passwordreset.html

Thank you.

Hello everyone,

I'm just wondering since I misplaced it during installation in my previous test site. I can't seem to find a forgot password option.

@scooke Thank you for that. It clears up a lot of the confusion. I appreciate all of your help throughout this process. Now I can get up and running and launch Ghost at will.

@scooke Thank you for the response. Do you maintain all of your Cloudron installations under different emails or one?

@scooke Thank you. Now I can work the terminal a bit and can install Ghost quick and as needed on Digital Ocean droplets. I'm going to take a basic course on Linux commands and working the terminal now. This seems interesting.

This is bringing me back to when I was a kid hanging out on IRC channels and getting MP3's and Video Games through CD and LS commands on my old IBM box.

When using Cloudron, should I just use one overall email for all apps? or are accounts specifically tied to domains? so my.domain will need its own account or can my.domain1 and my.domain2 be managed from one master Cloudron account? With that said can I install Ghost twice from within one account?

Thank you.

Hi @scooke

In this area, I just left the location empty and installed ghost into the bare domain. That's OK right? What does this mean, btw?

Thank you

@murgero Thank you bro! I learned how to create and manage SSH keys via terminal today. I'm going to start learning how to do basic Linux Terminal Commands now. So when installing Cloudron, I should select Let's Encrypt - Wildcard and turn that to yes. Anything else that you recommend?

I'm wondering since it's an option when adding the domain DNS details? I selected yes to the Let's Encrypt Wildcard option. Does this mean that the SSL cert will be installed during this process and auto update?

Thank you for your reply. Do you know how I should configure the DNS settings in this case if I'm using Digital Ocean?

@scooke You're good. Thanks for adding value to this forum. I just finished reading the Go Giver by Bob Burg, and thought about how this book aligns with your approach to just provide valuable information without expecting a return via affilite links, etc. You should read that book, you'll probably like it.

@vjvanjungg Thank you for the informative post.

@scooke Thank you.

@scooke said in Is it really difficult to manage a server?:

@Felix One really nice aspect of the modern Ghost is that backups are done within the app but saved to a place you choose. Restoring from that is just as simple (as long as the domain is the same). I've moved three different Ghost apps from three different servers over the last few years and it always went smoothly. I also use the free tier of cloudinary to host most of the media, so the Ghost backups don't end up huge - there are just links to backup! And it is better than semi-decent, they are exactly what the last backup backed up.

Thank you for that information. It makes the process less daunting. I feel that If I'm able to do that, it'll be easy to make mistakes and live with them, since I could potentially just revert back to the way things were via the backup files.

@scooke Thank you for your elaborated reply. I can tell you put some time into it.

So technically, I could self host Ghost and make periodic backups, and if anything breaks I could restore Ghost back to a semi-decent form based on the backups I previously created? It does look like the JSON file contains just about everything besides images.

I'm thinking about running Ghost inside of a $5.00 server somewhere. What are some things that I should know about if I do this? Would just running the server with Cloudron be sufficient at this point?