8 articles tagged "networking"
Your public server is being probed right now. The hardening checklist I run on every machine, SSH keys and firewalls and CrowdSec and non-root containers, in the order I apply it, before something else finds the gap first.
A records, CNAMEs, wildcards, MX, TTL and split DNS explained the way I needed them explained, before a domain panel stopped looking like a cockpit and started looking like the most powerful page on the internet.
Pangolin is a self-hosted, identity-aware tunneled reverse proxy. Your home server dials out over WireGuard to your own VPS, and you get per-user access control, SSO and browser-based remote access without exposing your network.
Buzz is Block's open-source workspace where humans and AI agents work in the same rooms and every message lands as a signed event on a relay you own. I stood one up with Docker Compose behind a Cloudflare tunnel.
I installed Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi. It now blocks ads, trackers, and malware at the network level. Every device in my house is protected.
Tailscale is amazing but depends on their servers. Headscale lets you run the same thing on your own infrastructure.
You have services running on random ports. You connect by remembering numbers. There is a better way and it takes five minutes.
I was paying $60/month for cloud VPS. Now everything runs on an ITX PC in my closet — and Cloudflare Tunnel makes it feel like a datacenter.