When setting up a new Portainer instance, the age old saying starts to drift back into my mind: "Well, it works on my machine..." And as I set up my networks inside Portainer and begin setting up other containers, I brush that thought away until I run into a problem.

When you are the designated CTO of your family, many different responsibilities fall on your shoulders. Anything from printer help to connecting devices to Wi-Fi becomes your domain of expertise. One of the hardest tasks in this job is to ensure that all the devices that you watch over are

As the old saying goes, a proper backup solution follows the 3-2-1 principle. 3 copies of your data, on 2 different storage mediums, with 1 being off-site. Many people like to keep a second copy of their important data on site, usually on a NAS in their home, or on

With the recent news of LastPass's data breach and hack, many people who have not been using a password manager are now frightful. Many consumers are hearing news story after story about this information being taken by hackers, yet know little about what actually happened. This can make them hesitant

Whether you're just starting off as a newbie trying to create a website online to a freshly graduated college student creating a resume website or an up-and-coming streamer trying to make a name for yourself: everyone needs a website. Choosing where to host – heck, even what to host on your

PagerDuty (PD) is an alerting and monitoring service used my many of the largest companies in the world from Carnival Cruise lines to Cloudflare and Slack. PD connects to your favorite service providers (AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), GCP, Azure) or any other service that can invoke a webhook given

With the host of various IaaS service providers across the internet offering services varying from web site hosting to managed databased to load balancers to direct access to VMs, it is hard to find the most performant, cheapest, and most reliable options. When push comes to shove, many larger companies

As discussed in a Cloudflare Blog post, one of the most annoying and costly parts of cloud storage and cloud computing is the storage egress costs. AWS charges a crazy $0.09 per GB of data that leaves their datacenters to the public internet. I would be charged $9 to

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is behind much of the internet today. As Amazon’s most profitable division, AWS has grown to over 35 data centers grouped into multiple regions across the globe (US-East-1 in Ashburn, VA for example). Each datacenter region is structured into at least 3 availability zones (AZs)