US Tech Exit: How to escape the clutches of Silicon Valley

  • Setting up WordPress

    Setting up wordpress in pretty easy in docker – but we need to set up two things – a database and the wordpress server itself. We can do some funny stuff with the setup though, which will display some nice docker compose features we will later use (a lot). Setting up the database Setting up…

  • Hosting stuff easily

    In order to host all the stuff we want easily, we want to have easily controllable environments, to avoid too much configuration juggling. We would also like a reverse proxy to lead specific URLs to specific containers, as well as some way to easily administer the running applications. Docker First, we want to install docker,…

  • Up next: More security

    Obviously, just limiting who can log into the server is not enough, as we did in US Tech-exit – First steps: a server. As you can see from this blog, I am a bit ahead right now, and have already hardened the server. I am trying my best to mildly obsfuscate whatever I am doing…

  • First steps: a server

    Hi there I have decided to try and make my IT setups more independent from US tech. This is not of any ill will towards the many great US collegues that I have, but mostly as an exercise, since this seems like a troublesome task in general, and I want some kind of estimate of…

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