Reflection on running my own servers
I've came a long way since I first started building software and running my own blog. My first website I published in early 2000, it was a subdomain of my fathers domain. I focused on my dog on this website, and made him a little HTML fan page. I also created a little
Weekly Update 10: Museum, Podcasts and Code
It's been an incredibly busy and crazy week. It flew by so fast, and before I knew it, it's Monday again. Today's the day to vote in the Federal Election and I've got to be honest, there just isn't any single good candidate to vote for. But alas, I'm a big supporter in
DDoS Protection: My experience
At 9:30 PM last week, my infrastructure received a denial of service attack. The infrastructure hosts this blog, my wifes blog, my wifes eCommerce store and some work-in-progress projects that I'm preparing to release. In addition, it also hosts a VPN for when I'm on the go, a few staging environments, my media
Privacy in a digital age
Is there such thing as privacy in any modern digital society? In recent years, privacy has been a very hot topic. With the Snowden leaks and continuous reports of violations across the world, there’s a strong case against privacy in a digital age. I’d argue that you should have no expectation of privacy in
Why I’m running Cloudlinux
I’ve been a long time user of Debian to run my stack, and it’s been pretty resilient on my small websites. Alas, as my websites grow in traffic I wanted something to provide more security and isolation, while offering individual limitations for non-priority resources. I first spotted Cloudlinux when researching shared hosting isolation, and
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy thanksgiving to all my fellow Canadians, may your day be filled with happiness and love with the ones around you in your life.
Weekly Update 9: CDN Prep
As you can tell, this site relies on cloudflare for its CDN. It’s not the best CDN but it’s been getting the job done, alas, my traffic has outgrown the free cloudflare plan and it’s time to upgrade. I’m preparing to upload all my assets to BunnyCDN, it’s got great support and in my
Weekly Update 7 & 8: Geek CMS gets a new name, and new features!
It's been a long and tiring week that's for sure. My weekly updates have been pushed back later than I want them to be, and I'm swamped with work in a good way. I've been working on a new hybrid blogging/content management platform with automation I've labeled "Geek CMS", and felt it needs a
Bitcoin: The gift that usually keeps on giving.
Back in the day when Bitcoin was worth peanuts, I decided to invest some money into it and bought a single coin. Boy, I regret those days. When Bitcoin finally rose to about $10000 apiece, I cashed out all I had left after some poor cash-out decisions, I walked away with $300. It
WordPress Optimization: Part 1
WordPress is a bulky application by nature, and with its ecosystem makes it easy to install anything you can imagine. This comes with some reasonable consequences as there will be more weight on the application during load time. For part one, we're going to focus on the server-side of things, specifically, what can you