Leave GoDaddy and Go Completely Serverless Using Just Cloudflare and S3 Buckets: Part One

Being at the tail end of a hosting contract with GoDaddy, the renewal fees have gone way up, plus the Linux kernel and PHP interpreter are outdated – a rebuild is needed. I’ll use this opportunity to migrate my sites to AWS S3 and Cloudflare to save big money, save resources, have fine-grain server control, and squeeze out every drop of performance and get a nice SEO bump.


Set up an ODROID XU4 RAID Server with Cross-Compiled Docker Images for ARM

ODROID XU4s are awesome. They are 8-core, 2GHz ARM single-board computers (SBCs) with Gigabit Ethernet and USB 3.0 connections. They only have 2GB of DDR3 RAM, but when paired with a CloudShell2 case and a couple of HDDs (or SSDs), they become an impressive NAS, or better, dedicated network-activity drivers for other projects.


Build a Secure MFA Web-Browser-Based Remote Desktop Gateway on a Raspberry Pi

Let’s say I’m in a Starbucks or the airport (or both) and I want to connect to my Windows (or OSX or Linux) machine to check on things. Maybe I don’t want to take my primary computer with me on vacation; maybe I’ll just take a Chromebook. Behind a restrictive firewall all we have is port 80 and port 443 (no VNC or RDP allowed), so let’s make a secure web-based remote desktop gateway with a Raspberry Pi, Docker, and Cloudflare.


GoAccess Web Log Analyzer Installation on CentOS

GoAccess web log analyzer is a beautiful tool to show real-time traffic and stats – including GeoIP information, bandwidth usage, and visitor time distributions – of my web projects and apps over and above Google’s Webmaster Tools and UA reporting. At a glance I can see current traffic and historic traffic just by adding a […]