Networking for self-hosters and developers: web servers, reverse proxies, VPNs and zero-trust access.
Four tools solve four different problems that all get pitched as the same problem. Here's what each one does, where each one breaks, and the combination that covers a real homelab without paying an SSO tax you didn't see coming.
SudoSecurity runs Teleport internally for everything — admin panel access, secure database connections, Kubernetes, and zero-trust philosophy across our entire team. This is the complete technical guide to installing, configuring, and running your own self-hosted Teleport cluster from scratch.
A web server accepts HTTP requests and returns responses. Apache has been doing this since 1995. Nginx rebuilt the model in 2004 and took over the cloud. Here's how they work, how they differ, and how to pick between them.
When it comes to running a web server for all of my online projects, NGINX is the first that comes to mind for me. By default, it follows
