I mentioned the other day that I was feeling a tad overwhelmed with some website setup issues. When I last set up a website a few years' back, Linode had an easy one-click solution that worked fine. This time, it was not so easy - it looked like I could do everything about the same way as before, but the whole process was actually broken. Based on my research, not only was I not even the only one with this problem, but the problem had also been there for a year already without anyone bothering to fix it.
Luckily, I found an APPARENT set of how-to step-by-step instructions on how to do the whole thing manually with a terminal.
Except that terminal commands are complete gibberish to me. I didn't even know how to access the server (I do now; it's ssh root@ip), so I ended up trying to install PHP and Wordpress and MySQL on my own computer - which, of course, doesn't do anything in terms of the website, because it doesn't live on my computer, but on the server.
Right. Exactly.
Well, even after feeling like an idiot and getting over this dumb mistake, the oh-so-clear-seeming set of how-to step-by-step instructions were all beat to shit. They clarified absolutely nothing and assumed that the person following them was a world-class IT genius.
I mean - if I'm trying to install Wordpress, I literally can't be a world-class IT genius. Only laymen use Wordpress. But were the instructions intended for laymen? No.
So I did what I said I would do: I found an IT genius and harnessed his intellect and watched, in tearful horror, how even he had problems understanding the instructions.
I mean, can you imagine the aggregate size I would now be in had I tried to solve the thing myself, when even an IT genius found the instructions frustrating?
Right. Exactly.
So why do I even try to do these things myself? Well, because doing the whole thing manually is cheaper than buying an all-inclusive package.
There it is again - my scarcity mindset.
Anyway, the site is up now. All there's left to do is to adjust some links and add a banner and implement SSL. I'm sure I'll manage to mess those up somehow as well. But I have a few weeks left to figure it out, so I'm not in pieces - yet.
If everything goes to plan, at least eventually, after some banging of the head against a wall, I'll have all my 2024 goals done and achieved.
That's what life is about, after all - reaching your yearly goals. (And finding out your minimum aggregate size.)
RK out.
