Yeah, VPN is short for "Virtual Private Network" which is often described as a "tunnel" because it is like a channel inside the main channel, or a tunnel. But all it is is your traffic encrypted and setup logically in the operating system as a seperate network when in reality is routing over the ...

I think this is so cool. I really want to self-host something, just for the heck of it, I have so many computers laying around. Right now I'm scraping up pennies to build a NAS, after that the next goal will be to replace the current ISP provided router/modem combo so I can configure the settings ...

Are you backing up? SD Cards will often begin to fail all at once and external hard drives are a lower grade of drive that wasn't intended to be powered on all of the time. The part of the self hosting journey I am working at getting better too. That being said, you can't beat how little power your ...

I would also submit this list as a fairly comprehnsive list of self hosted solutions. https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/a ... selfhosted

Yeah, if you want to replaced Notion then you might really like this one AppFlowy https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy. We areally are in the golden age of high quality free to host apps!

Having a do it yourself attitude is a big part of the culture of the Indie Web. High Quality open source software is very plentiful these days and the hardest thing is knowing where to start. I started with just the Dell Tiny PC with 6 cores, 12 threads. I installed an operating system on it call ...