Reading Time: 10 minutes9 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 notice, which can be a problem when I want to access services hosted at home, like a self-hosted server or VPN. Instead of relying on a third-party Dynamic […]
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Reading Time: 23 minutes21 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 same local network. While there are several technologies available to achieve this, choosing the right one often comes down to your specific network constraints and goals. […]
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Reading Time: 14 minutes9 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 Virtual Network Gateway. However, that does come with a price tag! Sure, there is the basic Virtual Network Gateway SKU that you can use which […]
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Reading Time: 7 minutes4 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 identities. There’s a few ways this can be done, using the Windows IIS SMTP service and link in with Microsoft 365, however, to my surprise, this […]
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Reading Time: 6 minutes4 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? or do you want to move your sites to another server? I’ve used this for when I move from self hosted on a VM on […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes2 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 can use the backup feature there, but where’s the fun in that? So what I planned on doing was to back the following up to […]
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Reading Time: < 1 minute1 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 Authentication, the use of FIDO2 or Passkeys to secure my user account, but also I like to install things like WP Mail SMTP and Big […]
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Reading Time: 5 minutes3 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 to the infrastructure. Ubuntu can be deployed easily on Azure for very little cost, or if you have the capacity you can host on your […]
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