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Month: January 2021

NEXTBOX – free and useful for tracking datacenter and networking

NEXTBOX – free and useful for tracking datacenter and networking

NetBox is an IP address management (IPAM) and data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tool. Initially conceived by the network engineering team at DigitalOcean, NetBox was developed specifically to address the needs of network and infrastructure engineers. It is intended to function as a domain-specific source of truth for network operations. NetBox runs as a web application atop the Django Python framework with a PostgreSQL database. For a complete list of requirements, see requirements.txt. The code is available on GitHub. The complete documentation for NetBox can be found…

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How to securely self-host a website or web app

How to securely self-host a website or web app

So, you have a Raspberry Pi, NAS, Server, or a firewall and you’d like to host a website… Let me first tell you: it’s not always wise to do so. The internet is full of scary people and devices that will try to knock on your “Front door” to see if they can take advantage of your beloved systems. The more “friendly” ones might use them to execute DDOS attacks on others, or use your hardware to mine bitcoins for…

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