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Securing Your Home Wi-Fi: A Practical Checklist
Ten minutes of router settings that decide whether your home network is private. A plain checklist, with the reason behind each item and how to verify it.
8 min readHosting 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.
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.