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How to use Cloudflare Email Routing and a free Gmail account to cut email hosting costs to zero.

In this post I describe how I switched our backend from ActionCable to AnyCable to for more scalable and better performing web sockets, together with how to set this up in Kubernetes.

This post shows how to self host a Nextcloud instance on a server with Dokku using an s3 compatible object storage service as the primary storage for user data.

Cloudflare Tunnel is an awesome feature of Cloudflare that allows you to expose some local services to the Internet with your custom domain, for free. This can be useful when collaborating with others on a project.

Dokku is an open source alternative to Heroku that enables the same easy deployments with "git push" but with your own servers, so it can be much cheaper than Heroku.

This post describes a simple and fast method to anonymize data in a Postgres database, useful for reporting or in general when you cannot share private information with third parties due to privacy concerns.

In this post, I compare the performance of virtual/dedicated servers I have been testing.

Nextcloud is a popular self hosted, open source alternative to hosted cloud storage services like Dropbox and Google Drive. It is very rich in features and allows you to keep full control over your data.

Docker for Desktop doesn't run on Macs with Apple silicon yet, so in this post I show a workaround that involves using a remote Docker engine and syncthing to keep local and remote directories in sync for bind mounts.

In this second part of a two-part series, we'll see how to deploy Kubernetes to Hetzner Cloud using a node driver for Rancher, so that Rancher can create and manage servers for us.