Google still has the best results for some queries. DuckDuckGo is fine for most of them. Kagi is excellent if you want to pay $10/month. But there’s a fourth option that gets oddly little airtime: SearXNG — a self-hosted metasearch …
Pocket announced its shutdown in 2025. Instapaper still exists but is third-handed and feels frozen. Reader-by-Readwise is good but it’s a $10/month subscription. The self-hosted answer is Wallabag — PHP+MySQL, runs on a $5 VPS, has clean iOS / Android …
You’ve been paying $40/year for a Bitwarden family plan, or $36/year for an individual one. The product is excellent — there’s nothing wrong with what they’ve built. But you also have a $5/month VPS that’s already running a couple of …
I have a 4 GB Oracle ARM box that, by all rights, should not be running everything I run on it: LSWS with eight WordPress sites, a Postfix relay, fail2ban, CrowdSec, Tailscale, three small Node services, and a couple of …
You’re spinning up a $5/month VPS to host one or two WordPress sites. The web server choice is one of the early decisions that’s hard to undo later because the rest of your config — vhost files, cache layer, TLS …
RSS isn’t dead — it’s the part of the open web that the algorithm-driven feeds couldn’t kill. The trade is that you have to host the reader yourself if you want the experience to be good. Two reasonable self-hosted options …
Tested this on a lot of servers already before writing this post. I needed to move from SquareSpace to Vultr VPS, so this post is from that.
This is what I am using…
Server: Ubuntu 14.04
Memory: 512MB
CPU: 1 …
SquareSpace.com is beautiful indeed, but misses a lot of features even today and its much costlier than a small VPS server.
So, switched to WordPress and found a beautiful theme for my blog.
Vultr server I bought costs just $2.5 …
This is a review for Amazon AWS after using for 3 years.
Honestly, when we started with Amazon AWS, it was so cool. Everything was fast and we liked their services a lot. It was a little clumsy for a …