Update may 7th 2024: these days I would recommend just using tailscale and tailscale acl and just access servers directly from phpmyadmin using tailscale ips. As a self-hosting aficionado I do prefer to use tools that are hosted on my home server instead of my development computer/laptop. There may be couple reasons you would want … Read more
I do a lot of web development and prefer spinning up my development app/site/enviroment on one of my home server(s) within the confines of my homenet/homelab (without ever exposing site/app to the internet). It works just dandy for http, however – im not satisfied with just http (even if this is a dev environment) – … Read more
Letsencrypt is an amazing new (launched in april 2016, so not all that new really) Certificate Authority that issues SSL certificates for free, that can then be used for protecting your websites with https free of charge. Yes – we the people get free SSL certificates, and then together we can help make internet more … Read more
As a huge self-hosted aficionado I do love setting up new self-hosted applications in my home lab. Containerization truly pushed the envelope for homelabber/selfhoster community by drastically reducing LOE required to set things up ( and more importantly maintain things with low effort and low time expenditures). Im sure any person who ever dabbled with … Read more
Your WordPress blog is running very slowly and you have tried 5000 plugins and none of them is helping? This post will demonstrate how to solve the performance issues using the reverse caching proxy. Varnish Cache is a very common caching tool (reverse caching proxy) many web applications/ blogs/CDNs utilize to speed up content delivery, … Read more
