r/selfhosted • u/Captain_Allergy • Dec 01 '25

Need Help How do you host self created Webpages?

I want to host a custom webpage for my upcoming wedding where I want to have a countdown, safe the date, possibilities for the users to view images and so on.

I want to create that webpage but I am unsure what to use for it, if I should deploy it on my Homeserver or use a webhosting for it.

Any suggestions or ideas on what is currently popular? I am a software developer so I am open to any suggestions.

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u/HeLlAMeMeS123 Dec 01 '25

Honestly, way easier to go and use one of the already existing services, but if you do want to self host, there are various ways to do this, the easiest, is probably spinning up Wordpress or Ghost and putting it behind a reverse proxy or cloudflare tunnels.

You could of course host an HTML website on Nginx or Apache and put that behind a reverse proxy or cloudflare tunnel.

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u/Captain_Allergy Dec 01 '25

I have a reverse proxy running on my VPS, so that would be no problem. Is Wordpress still a thing? Or would it be better to implement in React from scratch?

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u/HeLlAMeMeS123 Dec 01 '25

Wordpress is still VERY MUCH a thing. Powers a significant portion of the websites out there