Cloud

As 2025 comes to an end, I wanted to pause and reflect on what this year meant to me—what I built, what I learned, and more importantly, how my mindset around building and failure evolved. This year…

Today was one of those days where everything that normally “just works” decides to take a vacation. Cloudflare had a pretty big outage, and suddenly all my websites were unreachable. The funny part?…

This is a quick post on how to use docker secrets with portainer . We will use the pgadmin service as an example to demonstrate this. Login to the portainer and navigate to the secrets landing page.…

Recently I was upgrading my home servers from Raspberry Pi to a PC with high configuration (intel i7, 32GB RAM and 1TB SSD). On Raspberry Pi, I used a single node docker network, but with plenty of…

Now a days it is common to use database as a service from cloud providers instead of maintaining the local postgres installation. Also there will be times you switch between providers due to some…

I am running my websites from my Raspberry Pi mini PC, and in this post, I am going to explain how I organize the apps and manage security using docker swarm network. In my setup I choose nginx…

If you are starting a small online business like me, this advise might help you. I have done some research recently as I was migrating my web apps hosted from home on my Raspberry Pi4 to cloud…