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From: Aidan <i@aidxn.fun>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 10:50:56 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Create README documentation

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 # pontus
 A website for my online self
+[![License: CC0-1.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-CC0_1.0-lightgrey.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
+
+# How to self-host
+There are two self-hosted options, depending on your situation. For my purposes, I opt to use the script, so I can keep code up-to-date with my repo. However, you may prefer to host the static code, and not use the script.
+
+1. **Use self script**
+The `self` script can help you establish a public/ folder, where code can be served to. At this time, it doesn't do anything but move the files over as of now. This script is only supported on Linux hosts.
+
+To use the self script, you must do the following:
+
+**a.**  Allow execution of self script
+
+```shell
+chmod +x self
+```
+
+**b.** Start server
+
+```shell
+./self start
+```
+
+You may also use `./self help` (this script does not provide therapy services) to view other available commands.
+
+2. **Use the static files**
+
+You may also opt to copy the src/ folder to another location, such as /var/www/html, so it can be served static with a web server such as Apache2 or NGINX.
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