Distilling the Cloud: The Journey Continues
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Discover how transitioning from cloud services to self-managed infrastructure can dramatically reduce costs while maintaining reliability and security for your applications.
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Blogs and NUCs and Caching, Oh My!
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A year ago, I migrated my site to a self-hosted NUC cluster, defying industry skepticism about home hosting. Using a WordPress stack with Varnish and Cloudflare, I optimized performance and security, achieving over 30% traffic caching.
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Consistent Infrastructure
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I first learned to code using GUI-based tools on Windows. This included tools like TortoiseSVN for version control and WAMP to run a local an Apache/MySQL/PHP stack. It was a great introduction to programming, but didn’t prepare me for the real world. Why? Because production wasn’t Windows. It was terminal-only Ubuntu. That meant I was
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A Foray into Private Hosting
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I’m going to revolutionize the way you host software on the internet! Follow along as I build in the open – starting with a private git server run by Forgejo and networked with Tailscale. Follow and stay tuned for more!
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WordPress Drama: From the Sidelines
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Yeah … the inside track of WordPress is a mess right now. I’m sure we all have opinions, so I figured I should log mine in as well.
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WordPress, Hosts, and Hosting
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After nearly a decade out of WordPress, I visited WordCamp US and met with several hosts. TLDR: the state of WordPress hosting is stale.
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The Great Migration: Mastodon
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I migrated my personal Mastodon server from a cloud-hosted machine to a mini PC in my home office. Learn how I wrangled Docker and Cloudflare Tunnels to make this work!
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The Great Migration: Next Steps
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With a new server set up, the next step in the great migration was to start moving services to it from the cloud. First up, my toy encrypted secret sharing service!
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The Great Migration: Configuring the Server
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The first step in a server migration is configuring the new machine to which other systems, applications, and services will move. Learn how I chose my OS and configured it for remote access. This includes direct connectivity during reboots of a fully encrypted disk!
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The Great WordPress Migration
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In 2024 I finally migrated my WordPress blog (among other projects) from the cloud to a self-hosted Linux machine in my home office. All without exposing my private network to the world! Come join me on this journey as I explain my approach to owning my work and my own network.