I have been looking for an blogging application without the need for maintaining database and customized layouts. I created an account in blogspot long back and did not write any useful content. When Scott Hanselman blogged about migrating his website to cloud services from on-premise hosting he mentioned about DasBlog Core. This led me to look into DasBlog Core which is .NetCore migrated version of its original .Net Framework flavor.

Next it was hunting for hosting providers, started researching for providers with arguably minimal pricing and high up time. Narrowed down to Hostinger offering various plans for starters at great deals and had good reviews on their support and panel's ease of use. Went ahead and purchased permium hosting with multiple domains and free domain registration features for four years period. All process was pretty straighforward with option to create SSL using ZeroSSL for additional subdomains. Was excited and deployed my static website - home page. Tada! my website was up and running. 

Now to the interesting part, my blog engine is in .net core and i learnt from hosting provider it was not possible to run .net core application in shared hosting. I did try Hanselman's running .net core on shared hosting linux hosting. As it was highlighted if the application stops it will not try to restart failed application. This was a bummer my plan to have website along with blog was suddenly collapsing. Was looking for any .net core shared hosting provider but to no avail.

Finally had to convert my shared hosting to VPS and with it comes my skills to configure server, since it was mentioned i will have to maintain the server on my own. Installed .net core 3.1, nginx as proxy server and created SSL using Letsencrypt. Steps i followed and issues could be subject another post