The problem.
I have a server at home and I sometimes need to access it from outside the home. So I have pointed a domain to my IP adress and I have done the neccesary firewall magic to get stuff working the way I want. All cool.
However, sometimes my …
The same day as I posted the back to basics post things stopped working. I just couldn't log into my server. Dovecot didn't respond. Emails didn't seem to get accepted (althought, due to the wonderful nature of that protocol, it doesn't really create a problem as emails are just retried …
I got the bill from my hosting provider. For hosting this site in its previous form, a DNS of a couple of hostnames and some email forwarding the bill was a bit much. So the perfect excuse (or good enough) to go back to having my own server where I …