Jan 7, 2021//5 min readRunning Ghost on TorRecently I've had the opportunity to play with some new and existing technologies as a mechanism of both upskilling and trying something new. I decided to spend some of that time learning how to crea
Dec 26, 2020//6 min readClient certificates, Let's Encrypt, custom CAs and CloudflareOver the last week, I've been building a new server for some friends and I to host our own NextCloud [https://nextcloud.com/] instance. Part of this is to keep our technical eyes up-to-date and releva
Aug 26, 2020//6 min readCache purging with Ghost and Cloudflare WorkersAs I have moved my blog platform over to Ghost, I've realised that there will be other parts of my technical ecosystem that will keep me busy tinkering. One such part of that is how to cache every pag
Oct 9, 2017//2 min readIP Restrictions behind Cloudflare and VarnishI've recently been working with a client using Drupal, Varnish, and Cloudflare as part of their digital transformation journey. The client had requirements to ensure that requests coming in through Cl
Mar 30, 2013//2 min readShowing China the banhammerRecently I started noticing a spike in the overall bandwidth on my server. A little bit of investigation revealed some interesting albeit confusing details. First contact Towards the end of last mont