Deploy a new Vultr server. I opted for a little single CPU, 512 mb server. It only supports IPv6, hopefully that doesn't become a problem for homebase... We'll find out.
ssh into the new server. Turns out I needed to specify the interface since it is IPv6. Looked a little something like:

ssh -6 root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Next up, install nvm so we can install node. At the time of setup, this is the script I used:

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.11/install.sh | bash

Uh oh, it's not installing. Hm, I wonder if this is some IPv6 stuff... Let me deploy a IPv4 server...
Works! Ok, boo, I guess I'm spending an extra $2.50 a month ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Now with nvm installed, we can install node:

nvm install node

Next I install homebase!

npm install -g @beaker/homebase

Ok now daemonize homebase so it keeps on keepin on

# install pm2
npm i -g pm2

# start homebase with pm2
pm2 start homebase

LAMP ish

Ok now that homebase is installed and running I want to add apache and php so i can run some alt stuff!!! Gonna base this off https://www.vultr.com/docs/how-to-install-apache-mysql-and-php-on-ubuntu-16-04 but am skipping mysql since I don't need that right now

sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get install apache2 -y

Now here is special part, lets change apache port to be non standard:

In /etc/apache2/ports.conf, change the port as

Listen 8079

Then go to /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf

And change the first line as

<VirtualHost *: 8079>

Now we can start apache:

sudo service apache2 restart

Now we install php

sudo apt-get install php -y
sudo apt-get install -y php-{bcmath,bz2,intl,gd,mbstring,zip} && sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php  -y

Start apache on boot

sudo systemctl enable apache2.service

restart apache

systemctl restart apache2.service

You can now proxy domains to apache in homebase.yml:

proxies:
  - from: proxy.website.com
    to: http://localhost:8079

But we need to get virtual hosts working. easiest way is with https://github.com/RoverWire/virtualhost

Now its easy to spin up a new site:

virtualhost create mysite.com

and then update homebase.yml

proxies:
  - from: mysite.com
    to: http://localhost:8079

The issue here is that script by default sets virtualhost to *:80 so just need to manually edit the .conf file and change to *8079 or just update the script to always create *:8079

I also updated the script to disabled indexes by default:

Options FollowSymLinks

jongacnik/how-to.md

LAMP ish