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15 Jan 2026 8 min read Updated 1 Feb 2026

Introducing TechPress All-In-One

Introduction For years I have been frustrated by how most WordPress themes claim to be lightweight or developer friendly but still require a small universe of plugins just to de...

Self-Hosting #Development #Ubuntu

13 Aug 2025 12 min read Updated 1 Feb 2026

Self-Hosted WordPress Made Simple

Introduction In a previous post, I walked through the step-by-step process of setting up a LAMP stack and deploying WordPress on Ubuntu. While that approach is great for learnin...

GitHub #Apache #Blogging

11 Aug 2025 6 min read

Automate Your Elgato Key Light Air with Microsoft Teams Presence

Introduction If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably joined a video call only to realise your lighting isn’t quite right. I use an Elgato Key Light Air, and I wanted…

Automation #Azure #Elgato Keylight Air

15 Jul 2025 10 min read Updated 17 Jul 2025

Secure Dynamic DNS Updates to Azure with AzureDNSSync

Introduction Like many home users, my broadband connection comes with a dynamically assigned public IP address. This means that my IP can change at any time sometimes without no...

Automation #Ubuntu #azure-automation

12 Jul 2025 20 min read

OpenVPN Site-to-Site setup

Introduction Setting up a Site-to-Site VPN is a powerful way to securely link two remote networks—such as a home lab and a cloud environment—so they behave as if they’re on the...

Azure #Azure #Easy-RSA

9 Jun 2024 11 min read Updated 10 Jun 2024

Cost effective IPSec Site to Site VPN with Azure and UDM

Introduction There are many ways to establish a VPN between my UDM and Azure andI’ve tried them all, but, for the best result I would still recommend using an Azure…

Azure #Azure #Microsoft

31 May 2024 5 min read

Creating a local SMTP relay using Postfix and SendGrid

I had a question recently asking about what would be the best solution as a local SMTP relay after ditching the local Exchange Management Server after going purely cloud identit...

Ubuntu #Ubuntu

27 May 2024 5 min read Updated 10 Jun 2024

Recovering your self hosted WordPress sites on Ubuntu

So, you are backing up your Ubuntu Server but what happens when you have a failure? or you delete something from the server? How do you go about recovering it?…

Ubuntu #Ubuntu

23 May 2024 3 min read Updated 24 May 2024

Backing up your Ubuntu web server and database

Once you have your server up and running you’ll probably want to sort out backing it up on a regular basis. If you’re running your server in Azure, sure you…

Ubuntu #Hosting #Ubuntu

23 May 2024 1 min read Updated 24 May 2024

Recommended updates to your self hosted WordPress

So, now your site is up and running you’ll want to get a few things installed on it as a base. for me I like to enable things like Multifactor…

Ubuntu #Hosting #Ubuntu

23 May 2024 3 min read

Self hosting WordPress on Ubuntu 22.04.4

I’ve used various hosting services over the years including hosted Wordpress, which has been good, but it can sometimes work out costly and also you do not have full access…

Ubuntu #Hosting #Ubuntu