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My first year with OpenBSD

Last year in March, I made another review of OpenBSD and finally decided to migrate from Linux. At least in the case of my servers. But somehow I stuck with it on my personal laptop too, thanks to a lucky coincidence. Here is my migration story and my 5 cents about using OpenBSD as a daily driver on all my personal machines.

2022-08-08 | 5 minutes reading | tags: OpenBSD, Laptop, VPS, Self-host

Howto setup your personal XMPP server

There are several good reasons to have your own chat server instance. Some are philosophical like federalization of internet, some practical like keeping your data safe and only for yourself, some ethical like creating secure communication node for those who for any reason can not host their own. Or maybe you would like to know how the basic architectural patterns of client-server and server-server communication works. So let's dive in.

2021-08-04 | 11 minutes reading | tags: VPS, Linux, Self-host

Howto setup your personal CalDAV/CardDAV server

Do you like to backup or share your calendar and contacts, but you don't want to rely on proprietary companies and solutions built into your phones? You don't like to share such information? You don't want to be restricted to specific number of calendars, events or contacts? You want to be sure your provider won't close the service and lock you out from your data? Then it is time to self-host your own CalDAV and CardDAV service!

2021-07-01 | 6 minutes reading | tags: VPS, Linux, Self-host

Howto proxy your self-hosted services using web server

Many services available for self-hosting provide promised functionality, but let you take care of security and/or authentication. These are the cases when web server comes to the rescue with its ability to create a layer between internet and your service, which will provide additional features like authentication, upgrade to https with valid certificate, DoS prevention using fail2ban, or ability to communicate with service using custom (sub)domain. These features were explained in the previous article.

2021-02-12 | 7 minutes reading | tags: VPS, Linux, Self-host

Howto setup and secure web server

Web server is one of the most basic services you can self-host. Very simple to install, reasonably simple to configure for basic use. Not that hard to setup for more robust usage, but the hardest thing is to run it in secure way. This is also the reason why this episode is a bit longer than usual.

2021-01-08 | 20 minutes reading | tags: VPS, Linux, Self-host

Services you can selfhost on you personal Linux VPS

Fourth article of the Linux VPS series covers some of the services you can selfhost and and what are the pros and cons of selfhosting them compared to using established cloud services from big companies.

2020-12-30 | 6 minutes reading | tags: VPS, Linux, Self-host

Howto secure your personal Linux VPS

This is the third part of a small "Linux VPS howto" series and it talks about securing the default linux installation.

2020-09-22 | 15 minutes reading | tags: VPS, Linux, Self-host

Howto setup your personal Linux VPS

This is the second article of a small series about taking care of your own VPS. This one is about all necessary non admin things to think about when setting the VPS up.

2020-08-21 | 6 minutes reading | tags: VPS, Linux, Self-host

Why setup your personal Linux VPS

This article is first from a small series about owning your personal VPS. It is about reasons why you should or should not host services by yourself on personal VPS.

2020-07-20 | 3 minutes reading | tags: VPS, Linux, Self-host