Today marks the beginning of my self-hosting journey! I successfully installed Nginx on my server and configured it to serve my first website. The default “Welcome to nginx” page never looked so satisfying—seeing that green success message in my browser meant all the terminal commands and config tweaks paid off. From editing configuration files in /etc/nginx/sites-available to symlinking to sites-enabled and finally restarting the service, every step taught me something new about how web servers actually work under the hood. One server down, countless possibilities ahead!