Self hosting in 2023 and why you should do that

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Pinggy.io Landing Page
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Pinggy.io

Public URLs for localhost without downloading any binary
Pricing:
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- $2.5 / Monthly (Pro, 1 tunnel, HTTP, TCP, and TLS tunnel, Custom Domain)
A more easier way of connecting your raspberry PI server to a public domain / URL is to use https://pinggy.io It's just one command.

#Localhost Tools #Testing #Webhooks 69 social mentions
CapRover Landing Page
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CapRover

Build your own PaaS in a few minutes!
Pricing:
- Open Source
#PaaS #Cloud Computing #Container Tools 105 social mentions
Certbot Landing Page

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Certbot

Automatically enable HTTPS on your website with EFF's Certbot, deploying Let's Encrypt certificates.

> Not _exactly_ as easy, you also need a valid https cert, and set up a cronjob to renew it. Web servers like Caddy automate this for you: you just indicate that you want HTTPS for a particular site and the rest is taken care of for you (in the case of public sites and HTTP-01 challenges, at least). Link: https://caddyserver.com/docs/quick-starts/https Even Apache2 has mod_md which does pretty much the same thing (sans DNS-01 provider integrations, at least out of the box), so it's going to be good enough for most cases and similarly easy to Caddy. Link: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_md.html#mdomain Nginx integrates well with certbot, which does take a bit more work and configuration, but even that is passable: https://certbot.eff.org/ Things can get a bit tricky when you want to run your own CA or ensure mTLS, but in most cases neither will be necessary. As for whether you even need HTTPS in the first place, I'd say that it won't hurt in most cases and will guard against MitM, the ISP included.

#Web Servers #Software Development #Load Balancers 105 social mentions
kpatch Landing Page

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kpatch

kpatch is a feature of the Linux kernel that implements live patching of a running kernel, which allows kernel patches to be applied while the kernel is still running.

All Linux kernel livepatch stuff are paid services, as I understand it, the Linux kernel live patches aren't possible to just produce automatically, it requires a team with enough Linux kernel knowledge to make it work and usually such teams want to get paid. Also, I think that the base Linux kpatch tools are open source, but the infrastructure that RedHat/SUSE/Canonical/etc use to provide them are not. However, I think the Gentoo folks do have some open infra code. <a href="https://github.com/dynup/kpatch">https://github.com/dynup/kpatch</a>.

#Cyber Security #IT Management #Cloud Computing 2 social mentions
Cryptomator Landing Page
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Cryptomator

When it comes to saving your files on a cloud server, it is important to ensure the security of those files. Keeping your delicate files out of the wrong hands can save you a lot of time and hassle. Read more about Cryptomator.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Storage #File Sharing #Encrypted Cloud Storage 295 social mentions
Yggdrasil Landing Page
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Yggdrasil

A proof-of-concept scalable IPv6 meshnet, featuring end-to-end encryption, a unique spanning tree...
Pricing:
- Open Source
For me 2023 is exactly like 2003 from this point of view: a dynamic DNS account with inadyn/ddclient to refresh it when the IP changes, and it's almost like having a static IP. Even better if you have e.g. a Linode or any server with a public IP that can run Wireguard or OpenVPN. Then you can run your own VPN server, configure your DNS, and connect to anything from anywhere. Yggdrasil (https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/) is also another interesting IPv6-based solution - I have played with it a bit, but I still prefer to use my VPN, and do nginx reverse proxy from my Linode to my network over VPN when needed.

#VPN #Security #Cloud VPN 53 social mentions