Posts from Torredembarra

Vietnam

We spent nearly 4 weeks travelling in Vietnam and I wanted to share our experience and some tips you may find usefull.

It was our first time in Asia and it was wonderful. Locals are extremely kind and friendly, nature is amazing and the food is delicious and very diverse.

Personally it was the best trip of my life and I’m looking forward to return to South-East Asia. Hopefully, next winter!

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Self-hosting: domain and DNS zone

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

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Self-hosting: server hardware

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

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Self-hosting: starting an adventure

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

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Let’s begin the privacy quest

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!

tech bros attending Trump inauguration in Jan 2025

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Hello world!

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).

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