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# New Year, New Blog, New something?
- URL: https://michaelbrooks.co.uk/new-year-new-blog-new-something/
- Published: 2024-10-10T07:19:09.000Z
- Updated: 2024-10-10T07:19:09.000Z
- Author: Michael Brooks
- Tags: personal, update, Year review, #wordpress

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I am really stoked to show you guys my brand new Blog built with [October CMS](https://octobercms.com/?ref=michaelbrooks.co.uk). For my hosting, I have used [Digital Ocean](https://m.do.co/c/d5aca73b366f?ref=michaelbrooks.co.uk) (click the link for $10 free). Digital Ocean is a fantastic hosting company which I just love to use as they give you complete control over your VPS, and they even give you One-click apps to help you get started.

The technology I am using to drive my Blog is [Docker](https://docker.com/?ref=michaelbrooks.co.uk), [NGINX](https://nginx.org/?ref=michaelbrooks.co.uk), [PHP 7](https://php.net/?ref=michaelbrooks.co.uk) and [Maria DB](https://mariadb.org/?ref=michaelbrooks.co.uk). I don’t believe I have containerised each of my instances as much as I could have. However, it’s been great to use [Docker](https://docker.com/?ref=michaelbrooks.co.uk) in a real world situation.

The tutorials for Docker are really good. But because it’s such a vast topic, you don’t really know what’s going on. Unless you just bite the bullet and build your next website using it.

I will release a tutorial on how I got my website up and running next week. Hopefully it will help others in getting started.

As for the future of this Blog, I would like to start attaching podcasts to each Blog post I create. (I may even go back to previous posts and attach a podcast to them).

If you would like to hear more from me, then please feel free to follow me on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/checkeredmike?ref=michaelbrooks.co.uk), [Twitch](https://twitch.tv/checkeredmichael?ref=michaelbrooks.co.uk). Or you can subscribe using the form below and entering your email address.