Date: September 19, 2020
What: You pulled a docker container that does ACME / Letsencrypt automagically for you but does not allow for DNS validation. You use CSF and you do not want port 80 exposed to random sources. Why: Because CSF rocks 🙂 You might be hosting an application that only needs to be accessible by an ACL […]
Date: September 13, 2020
What ? We want Wireguard clients to connect to a middleman box that will route out to the internet via an OpenVPN client. Why ? Some of our sites have poor performance to the OpenVPN server. Wireguard clients are more seamless and battery/resource saving on mobile devices. We have a Wireguard server in a datacenter […]
Date: September 7, 2020
As I have speculated a while ago Netgate are releasing the SG-2100! I am excited! The store page is up now. Not sure when they plan to ship but an announcement should be imminent.
Date: September 7, 2020
It seems the rumors were true! Netgate are teasing a new device in. Presumably beefier than the entry-level SG-1100 but less pricey than the SG-3100 ? We will find out soon. Leaked Netgate pfSense SG-2100 specs: • CPU: Marvell Armada 3720 (88F3720) ARMv8-A 64-bit Cortex A53 @ 1.2GHz with NEON SIMD and FPU • CPU […]
Date: August 25, 2020
Categories:
Security,
Ubuntu-bash: /usr/bin/jq: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error (23) Failed writing body Windows Defender and a bunch of other AV engines currently claim that the jq binary from the official Ubuntu Focal repository is malware. Several reports to Microsoft have fallen on deaf ears. It will quarantine jq and attempts to execute it will […]
Date: August 22, 2020
Categories:
Security,
Ubuntu-bash: /usr/bin/jq: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error (23) Failed writing body Windows 10 20.04 build 19041.450 Security Intelligence Version 1.321.1943.0 False positive. Detects signed jq bin from Ubuntu focal repo as Trojan:Win32/Casdet!rfn Edit: Several other AV Engines also hit on it. Edit 25 Aug 2020: Microsoft accepted false positive report and “fixed” it […]
Date: August 12, 2020
This is part of a series of posts where I will benchmark some VPS offerings in the entry level ~$5.00 per month segment to refer to in an upcoming roundup. Hetzner CPX11 (AMD Epyc) €3.49 (~ $ 4.12) per month Processor: 2 vCore Memory: 2 GB Storage: 40 GB SSD Public bandwidth: 2TB Transfer Geekbench […]
Date: August 5, 2020
This week I will benchmark VPS instances from providers I work with or have recently worked with in the entry level segment ~ $5.00 a month to see where we are at. I will refer back to this in a comparison post. Trabia VDS-1G VPS €5 (~ $5.90) per month Processor: 1 vCore Memory: 1 […]
Date: August 4, 2020
This is part of a series of posts where I will benchmark some VPS offerings in the entry level ~$5.00 per month segment to refer to in an upcoming roundup. Vultr High Frequency Compute Cloud Instance $ 6.00 per month Processor: 1 vCore Memory: 1 GB Storage: 32 GB SSD SATA Public bandwidth: 1TB at […]
Date: August 3, 2020
This is part of a series of posts where I will benchmark some VPS offerings from providers I work with or have recently worked with in the entry level segment ~ $5.00 a month to see where we are at. I will refer to them in an upcoming comparison. Vultr SSD Cloud Instance $ 5.00 […]