Posts from Torredembarra
Self-hosting: server hardware
- 01 February 2025
Over next few weeks/posts, I’ll focus solely on self-hosting adventure. To start, beside free time and motivation to learn new things, you will need just a few components:
internet connection with public IP
router allowing port forwarding
Self-hosting: starting an adventure
- 31 January 2025
Over next few weeks/posts, I’ll focus solely on self-hosting adventure. To start, beside free time and motivation to learn new things, you will need just a few components:
internet connection with public IP
router allowing port forwarding
Let’s begin the privacy quest
- 27 January 2025
I’ve been thinking about privacy-related topics for several years now. But it never was a priority. My approach started to shift lately…
Over the years I’ve been experimenting a lot with alternative apps/services and self-hosting. Recently, I got determined enough to get rid of the last privacy-intrusive apps/services. It ain’t easy, but it’s possible!
I’ve been discussing the matter with family and friends. And we figured it’d be really beneficial to have a comprehensive list of alternatives to enshitified and privacy-intrusive ones. You can find a summary in the Privacy section.
Hello world!
- 01 April 2024
Welcome to my new blog! I’ll gradually describe all my adventures with self-hosting of various services, including blog/website, files and photos.
I started my website/blog in 2014. It was served using wordpress that was set up on virtual machine (VM) in google cloud.
I felt for a long time that running a dedicated VM for a blog is an overkill. There was huge overhead in maintaining both, the VM (regular system updates and backups) as well as wordpress itself (updates and database backups).