Your own email: Great power comes with great responsibility

There are days that you do things out of the ordinary. That day, I opened my spam folder…exceptional behavior for all of us. This is not the end, I found a self-sent threatening email. That’s me, a proper villain :) This amazing finding set off a thought process in my head.How? How is it possible? […]

Cloudflare Tunnels: You don’t need Nginx proxy

Exposing containerized applications isn’t straightforward. I’ve got a dedicated server for Docker containers with a few different supporting components. I need to take care of routing, SSLs, web sockets, paths, and other bits of Nginx configuration. Cloudflare states that this can be done easier and faster with:no open ports,no exposed public IP,SSL certificate,and completely free. […]

InfluxDB: If you are lazy, you need to be smart

Like most programmers, I’m lazy in some aspects.One of them is updating databases to the newest versions :) My InfluxDB for PV Dashboard is still an older 1.7 version. Everything works great and there is no need to upgrade, but a few days ago I need to rebuild a few queries due to billing changes […]

I’ve migrated my main server to Oracle Cloud (ARM)

Times, when I had a big discount on Webh, came to the end. Facing big VPS payments, I decided to migrate. Few solutions attracted my attention. I was guided mainly by practical reasons – the cheaper, the better. Of course, I’m joking. One of the main requirements was reliability and sustainable performance with cost-effectiveness in mind.