server

This post is an overview on how I setup this site (built using Hugo) to be automatically deployed to my Caddy server using Gitlab’s continuous deployment. I routinely swap between fancy blogging tools like Ghost and Wordpress as well as static site generation tools like Jekyll and Hugo far more often than I should. I keep coming back to static site generation for several reasons: Server footprint - It’s easy to host static files. [Read More]

For years, I’ve relied on SSH as the gateway into my LAN from the outside world. I figure that, as far as services I could place on “the front-line” go, it’s pretty solid. It sure beats publicly exposed RDP right?! My usual setup is to configure Linux and OpenSSH Server on a Separate VM or RaspberryPi, and forward inbound SSH requests to that machine. I prohibit password-based logins in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and also install and configure DuoSecurity’s PAM module as an additional layer when logging in from the outside world over SSH. [Read More]

I’m setting up a new Ubuntu 18.04 server and wanted the drives to be encrypted. Since the machine is headless in my basement, however, entering a password on boot is annoying.

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We used to run a development blog for work. We wanted:

1. To use NGINX to host this content. It was all static pages.
2. To limit access to people within our network, or to employees while outside the network (phones, laptops, etc.).
3. We didn’t want to deal with user accounts, active directory, etc.
4. We wanted super low friction for users.

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It seemed like a good idea to try something new with this website. I settled on running the fancy blogging software Ghost because it looked pretty, has a wonderful editing experience (with markdown support), and (most importantly) I’d never used it before.

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