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 …
I have a bit of a randomly put together home security system.
I have bought things when I have felt the need, and depending on prices at any moment got whatever was appealing and then connected it all toghether in some random way.
The household is me, 2 teenagers and …
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 …
Now the day came. Heroku has decided to stop with its free plans for running small web applications and their free redis and postgres plans as well. I don't blame them for it, but I am of course a little sad that such a convenient deployment option is going away …