The worst part about self hosting stuff is not having that seamless transition between applications built by google, microsoft and others, to being able to control the data your self. My biggest annoyance was being able to see how many hits my page got, where people came to my site from, as well as what people were searching for. This allows me to know what people like (for example most people came to my site to see me use s3 with jellyfin and nginx reverse proxy) so I can write more posts for them ...

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(it’s hard to find photos for an article like this) Currently, I use zerotier to manage cloud servers in Amsterdam, the UK as well as in the USA. Despite the huge distance there is surprisingly mininal latency. In this article, we will look in to how to use it to manage remote servers via ssh, what firewall rules you should setup to prevent people from trying to login. Getting started with Zerotier[ A beginners guide to SSH Once you’ve got your head around connecting a machine to zerotier, as well as how to setup seure ssh, we can look more towards the firewall rules. How ever, instead of telling you to go read something I will explain some basics here just to make life easier. ...

A quick intro on a home lab and the minimum to set one up

Sweet, you just got a linux server running on <insert cloud provider > but now you need to actually do something on it. You tried to use the web console but now you need to paste something in… It doesn’t work? Shit. Luckily SSH was designed to allow for Secure SHell access to a server. (Hence SSH) We will look in to the basics of how to connect, using keys, config files and going passwordless! ...

Let’s look at how we can use zerotier to bridge the gaps between us and a remote server to connect using private IP’s and not mess about with firewalls

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