There's been a change in the status quo this year, instability and unpredictability of one
of the most significant technology economies in the world might have you wandering
what happens if one day you wake up and can't get on your Google account because
you're not in the US.

The cloud as ever is just someone else's computer, and what if that someone else is no
longer allowed to do business with you or has to up your bill by 200%.
This is a collection of guides on on replacing common services with self hosted alternatives and decentralising your services in general, maybe you can claw back a bit of data privacy in the process. Remember there is always a balance to be struck between convenience, usability, privacy and security.

Prerequisites


The internal network I'm using for a lot this series uses Pi-Hole, Pi-Hole is an open source
project that runs on a raspberry pi and is built to be a DNS sink hole that blocks
advertising and trackers by default.S

Series

This mini series tag is NRFS001.

Nginx and UFW
Nginx and UFW This is part of a mini series about self hosting your stuff. If you are following in order then this is Part One!. In this post we will install Nginx so we can eventually deploy a reverse proxy for our applications. We’ll also enable UFW (Uncomplicated Firewall)
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PART1

Automated TLS and Nginx
Automated TLS and Nginx If you’re following the mini series this is part 2 Encrypt all the things!, it’s tempting to leave TLS out when building things on your internal network, especially at home. Self Signed certificate management is a pain and rolling your own certificate authority internally is certainly
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PART2