Learn to create some custom firewall rules on Cloudflare to help protect your site from bots, spammers, hackers, etc. This is a great starting point and can be achieved on the free tier.

Learn how domains can carry "ghosts" of previous illegal activities, impacting their future owners. Explore key steps to check if a domain is haunted and strategies to restore its reputation.

Marcus Buffett outlines why he’s switched to self-hosted analytics after being a long-term Google Analytics user.

How do you manage SSH keys when a developer leaves a company? Marc explores a solution that avoids having a single point of failure that is commonly found with commercial and open-source solutions.

A high level guide to self-hosting your software with the aim of invigorating your curiosities with what’s available today.

Learn how to set up a $4/month Hetzner virtual machine to allow you to bypass the “serverless tax”. This beginner-friendly tutorial expects you to be somewhat comfortable with the commandline.

The aim of this article is to create a comprehensive zero to hero pathway from higher-level to lower-level for the developers who want to learn and understand more about “Docker”. The target reader audience is, who wants to: Learn what does Docker use under the hood, understand containerization in-depth, know the relationships between components, master in the overall mental model, see the big picture.

A beginner’s guide to installing Linux, connecting via SSH and setting up Docker.

In this article, we learned the difference between Docker and Docker Compose. You learn how to write your own compose.yaml to manage multiple containers at once. You also learn to persist data with volumes, how to communicate via networks and how to access the container or the logs from the host system.

In this step-by-step Docker Compose tutorial, you’re going to learn how to create simple containers, map ports with Docker Compose all the way to complex multi-container scenarios.

Learn how to install, configure, test and monitor Fail2Ban - an intrusion prevention framework written in Python that protects Linux systems and servers from brute-force attacks.

We are going to learn how Fail2ban works and then use that knowledge to protect any arbitrary service of our choosing. This means we won’t be limited by only what Fail2ban supports out-of-the-box, and by the time you’re done with this guide, you should be able to configure Fail2ban yourself to protect any service that you desire, including SSH.

This guide helps you to select the right hardware for self-hosting services by exploring the various options and their pros and cons.

In this guide, we’ll discuss how to install Nginx on your Ubuntu 20.04 server, adjust the firewall, manage the Nginx process, and set up server blocks for hosting more than one domain from a single server.

Learn about configuring an Ubuntu machine for the first time to increase the security and usability of your server from DigitalOcean, a leading cloud service provider.