Self hosted Email vs Gmail

Everyone needs email… itʼs what enables us to receive communications from e-commerce sites and other internet services. So when faced with the challenge of creating a personal email address, where do most people turn? Invariably, they choose GMail. On the surface GMail presents a very attractive solution for email. Itʼs pretty feature rich, it works reliably (except in China!) and itʼs normally free for personal use. This is fine as long as you realise that you are the commodity when using free services like this....

January 10, 2022 · 14 min

Ubuntu Server Post Provisioning Setup

When you provision a new server or VPS, there are a few steps you should take to make access to the server both secure and less painful. 1. Update the server Update the server using the latest packages. On Ubuntu execute the following commands (as root): apt-get update 2. Don’t login as root The first time you login into your (new) server, you should use the root account for updating the server and creating a new user....

January 3, 2022 · 3 min