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News

December 9, 2025

10 Min Read

How I Replaced Google Cloud Armor with a Custom $0 WAF (and Saved $3k/mo)

If you host on Google Cloud, the path of least resistance for security is usually Cloud Armor. It’s right there in the console, it integrates with your Load…

Cybersecurity

September 30, 2025

7 Min Read

How-to: VPN setup that’ll always work-even in China

Censorship gets craftier every year. What worked last summer gets throttled or fingerprinted this winter. The point of this guide and the script it ships with is simple:…

Cybersecurity

September 13, 2025

5 Min Read

Why Modern Hosting Needs Zero-Trust Thinking (Even If You’re Just Running CloudStack in Your Garage)

The internet doesn’t care if you’re a one person shop renting a couple of VMs or a tech giant with a billion-dollar security budget. It will still kick…

News

September 11, 2025

8 Min Read

Gaza Is an AI Training Ground. How Technology Powers Genocide in Palestine

Why this isn’t a debate Read it like an incident report. You start with the top-signal sources and see what they converge on. The International Court of Justice…

Cloud

September 8, 2025

7 Min Read

CloudStack – Part 4: First VM Walkthrough, UEFI Setup, Domain Setup w/ SSL(Cloudflare)

Congrats, CloudStack is online, chef’s kiss. Now we add the armor and ship a version your future self will thank you for, not hate you for 🤣here’s what…

Cloud

September 6, 2025

3 Min Read

CloudStack – Part 3: Configuring & Deploying CloudStack

Being on this page means you have already finished the the previous steps, Let’s configure CloudStack. Before we start keep in mind that these images are all just…

Cloud

September 6, 2025

11 Min Read

CloudStack – Part 2: Installation Guide

Apache CloudStack 4.21 is here, bringing a sharper UI and a stack of new features—there’s no better time to upgrade or roll out a fresh install. In this…

Cloud

September 6, 2025

4 Min Read

CloudStack – Part 1: Introduction to IaaS of the Future

Introduction: Why CloudStack (and why now) Virtual machines aren’t going anywhere. Containers grabbed the headlines, but most real-world stacks still run a hefty VM layer for databases, stateful…

Guides

May 19, 2025

15 Min Read

How to Install WordPress the Right Way (Comprehensive Step-by-Step Guide)

Most people install WordPress the easy way. We’re going to install it the right way. secure, repeatable and for what it’s worth, it’s still easy. WordPress doesn’t get…

CSS

April 1, 2022

2 Min Read

Learn CSS

Level Up Your UI: A 9-Video CSS Mini-Course You know HTML. Now let’s make it look good. I put together a 9-video CSS series that takes you from…