--- title: MOVING My Website from Static Hosting to Caddy! | daily.dev description: A walkthrough of migrating a personal website from Linode object storage to a self-hosted VPS running Caddy web server. The setup includes privacy-respecting... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/moving-my-website-from-static-hosting-to-caddy--g52tx8r0o twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: MOVING My Website from Static Hosting to Caddy! | daily.dev og:description: A walkthrough of migrating a personal website from Linode object storage to a self-hosted VPS running Caddy web server. The setup includes privacy-respecting... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/moving-my-website-from-static-hosting-to-caddy--g52tx8r0o og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/G52Tx8r0o.png og:image:alt: MOVING My Website from Static Hosting to Caddy! og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # MOVING My Website from Static Hosting to Caddy! **[apalrd's adventures](https://daily.dev/sources/apalrd)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A walkthrough of migrating a personal website from Linode object storage to a self-hosted VPS running Caddy web server. The setup includes privacy-respecting analytics via Goatcounter (reading Caddy log files stored in a RAM-based /run directory to avoid persistent IP storage), systemd service units for Caddy and Goatcounter, and an automated Hugo site rebuild triggered daily via a systemd timer and git pull. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How do I set up Goatcounter with Caddy to get privacy-respecting web analytics on a self-hosted VPS? Run Caddy to serve your static site and write access logs to a directory in /run (a RAM disk on modern Linux), which avoids persisting IP addresses to disk. Goatcounter reads those log files every few seconds, feeds IPs into a geo-IP database for country detection, then discards them. Caddy caps log files at 10MB, and systemd units manage both services. Once data reaches the Goatcounter database it is sufficiently anonymized. _Developers self-hosting their analytics stack find related setups and configs on daily.dev._ ### How can I auto-rebuild a Hugo site on a VPS using systemd timers? Create a systemd service unit that runs git pull followed by hugo -v to regenerate the site, then add a systemd timer unit to trigger that service on a schedule (e.g., daily). You can also trigger the rebuild manually over SSH with systemctl start webrebuild, and inspect the output in journalctl. _Hugo site operators managing their own VPS deployments share patterns like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Caddy handles reverse proxying so well that I ditched my entire toolchain](https://daily.dev/posts/caddy-handles-reverse-proxying-so-well-that-i-ditched-my-entire-toolchain-glaqlmpl7) · XDA Developers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [The Switch To Linux And The Beginning Of My Self-Hosting Journey](https://daily.dev/posts/the-switch-to-linux-and-the-beginning-of-my-self-hosting-journey-nwybyqfkf) · Hacker News · 3 upvotes · 0 comments - [Migrating from Codeberg Pages to an OpenBSD VPS](https://daily.dev/posts/migrating-from-codeberg-pages-to-an-openbsd-vps-sxyhvh5jq) · Lobsters · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#self-hosting](https://daily.dev/tags/self-hosting) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/moving-my-website-from-static-hosting-to-caddy--g52tx8r0o) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"MOVING My Website from Static Hosting to Caddy!","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/moving-my-website-from-static-hosting-to-caddy--g52tx8r0o","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/moving-my-website-from-static-hosting-to-caddy--g52tx8r0o"},"datePublished":"2026-08-11T08:56:31.808Z","dateModified":"2026-08-11T09:35:32.424Z","description":"A walkthrough of migrating a personal website from Linode object storage to a self-hosted VPS running Caddy web server. 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