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
Varnish is a very common caching tool many wordpress blogs (but certainly not limited to just wordpress) utilize to speed up content delivery. Here’s a very basic example on how to set it up: Where bytepursuits-wp in above example is the hostname of my wordpress server. In example above I use docker-compose and as we … Read more
Quite often we need to launch a small app on a simple VPS server. In those cases my approach for quick delivery may be a docker stack with one or multiple proxy containers. Now the common issue with logging in above scenario is that: logs dont contain real ip addresses and would be filled with … Read more
