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Hosting Static Websites on Cloudflare Workers: A Practical Guide
Workers now serves static assets free and unlimited. Here is the full deployment path, and an honest comparison against S3 plus CloudFront.
Asia VPN Blog
Guides on VPNs, online privacy and mobile gaming latency in Asia-Pacific
4 min readCloudFront vs Cloudflare: The Pricing Model Decides It
Similar names, unrelated companies, and two opposite billing philosophies. The tech is close enough that cost and terms are what should pick the winner.
4 min readSelf-Hosting a VPN on AWS Lightsail: About That 1 TB
Lightsail bundles 1 TB of transfer into a $5 plan, but a VPN spends that allowance twice over. Here is the setup, and how far the TB really goes.
5 min readCloudflare Tunnel: Reach Home Services Without Port Forwarding
CGNAT, no static IP, no open ports - a tunnel solves all three. How to set one up, and how its trust model differs from running your own VPN at home.
6 min readRun a VPN on Your Raspberry Pi with PiVPN (Pi 3, 4 and 5)
Install WireGuard on a Raspberry Pi with PiVPN, share profiles safely with family and friends, and check whether your ISP will even let you.
5 min readHardening a Public VPS: The First 30 Minutes
SSH keys, a firewall, automatic patching, and a look at your logs. The short list that matters - plus two Ubuntu traps that silently undo your sshd_config.
4 min readRun Your Own OpenVPN Server on a DigitalOcean Droplet
Set up a private OpenVPN server on a $4 droplet using angristan's install script - and an honest look at what self-hosting gets you and what it does not.
5 min readMeasuring a VPN Properly: Throughput, Latency and Jitter
Speed tests measure the wrong path. Here is how to use iperf3 and mtr to find out whether a VPN actually helps your connection - and how to read the output.
1 min readCan a VPN Lower Your Ping in Mobile Games?
Sometimes yes, usually no. Here is how routing actually decides your ping, and the specific case where a VPN in Asia makes games measurably smoother.
1 min readWhat Is a VPN and Do You Actually Need One?
A plain-English explanation of what a VPN does, what it does not do, and the three situations where turning one on genuinely protects you.
3 min readUsing Cloud GPU with Linode VPS for Hashcat
Cloud computing has revolutionized the way we handle data and perform complex tasks...