| About |
The Internet has been enshitified. We are sorry about that, though it is not entirely our fault. It's all of our faults. How? Well, we've been told it is hard, scary and all doom and gloom to host everything ourselves. We were told this to the point that we believed it, and we do. It was a slippery slope; hosting websites (Angle Fire, Facebook, etc), then email (Yahoo, AOL, Google), and now we entrust all of our information into the few that survived and have walled us off from the rest of the tech echosystem. Just ask yourself, "how easy is it to migrate my data?" Want to switch from Apple to anything else, or for that same matter, Android to anything else, or switch your email provider? It's hard, because they've made it hard, and now you keep paying $2 a more a month just to see "fewer" ads.
Enough is enough. It's time we take our data back. This guide is to help you understand where to start, and how to go about doing so, from real engineers and users who have already ventured into this previously traveled "Wild Wild West." It isn't the Wild Wild West; let's go Eastard Bound.
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Table of Contents |
| Core Infrastructure |
| You're going to need some metal to run all this gear on, and a foundation to build it all from. The outlines below will help you better evaluate the choices that you can make as you decide what, and how, you would like to proceed. This is intended to get you started from the ground up with a fault tollerent and redundant solution, much like AWS-EAST-1 attempts to provide.
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| Home Routers |
| In this section, we will be discussing alternative ways that will get your packets onto the Internet, avoiding your ISP's default DNS resolution, as well as avoiding the 1.1.1.1, 4.4.4.4 and 8.8.8.8 addresses that also slurp up your browsing habbits for resale.
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| Services |
| We will walk through setting up DNS, Web hosting, Voice over IP, Email, and more.
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| Health |
| Congrats, you have a datacenter! Now you need to know when something is about to go wrong, or has gone wrong, so you can fix it.
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