Hosting

How to setup Certbot wildcard certificate on Apache

May 19, 2021

Certbot allows simple, quick and free provisioning of SSL certificates using LetsEncrypt.


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IPv4 CIDR Chart

June 11, 2020

CIDR stands for Classless Inter-Domain Routing and is a method for allocating IP addresses as well as for IP routing.


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How to keep your web server or blog up when you get a traffic spike

May 8, 2020

So you’re about to be featured on some very high ranking website.


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Introducing the Hetzner Cloud

January 27, 2020

I could honestly not tell you how many hosting providers I’ve tried over the past 15 years.


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Unable to delete an AWS Internet Gateway

November 22, 2019

So you need to delete an AWS Internet Gateway, sounds good.


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Squid Proxy behind a Load Balancer on AWS

October 4, 2018

Squid is a proxy software that allows a computer without internet access to proxy through another computer that does have internet access.


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International hosting governments and forensic email cases

September 30, 2018

Cyber forensics is hard, but it is even harder when servers are hosted in different geographical locations and an investigation needs all localities to cooperate and hand over every part of the data consistently.


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Everybody’s a web host

September 28, 2011

To cut straight to the point, “we’re living in the age where everybody’s a web host”.


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