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Prison Fellowship’s migration to Cloudflare: Choosing Between Pro and Business Plans
As a long-time advocate of Cloudflare, I have relied on their services for my personal DNS hosting for several years. Their robust features and user-friendly interface have made my experience seamless and efficient. Recently, I took on the task of migrating all of Prison Fellowship’s DNS to Cloudflare, which presented a new challenge: deciding between […]
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Heel Drop in Running Shoes
One of the things I didn’t know about when I began running and shopping for shoes is a small but crucial factor: heel drop—the difference in height between the heel and forefoot. While traditional running shoes often have a higher heel drop (10-12mm), lower-drop shoes (0-6mm) are gaining popularity among runners. But is less heel drop better? […]
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AWS Aurora vs. Redshift for Data Warehousing
At work we are looking into moving from a data dumping ground into a real data warehouse solution. So this took me down a rabbit hole of what should we use to host this ever expanding database? Since we are hosting in AWS two commonly considered AWS services for analytical workloads are Amazon Aurora and Amazon Redshift. While […]
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Back to WordPress: A Smoother Blogging Experience
I spent some time today moving my blog back to WordPress, and there were two main reasons for the switch. First, I wanted to experiment with some Cloudflare settings in preparation for upcoming discussions with the WordPress admin at work. There’s a lot of potential for optimizing proxy, caching, and bot protection, so I figured […]
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Migrating Kubernetes Containers on AWS from GP2 to GP3
At work we have a Stackgres kuberentes cluster that hosts our postgres databases. This allows for high availability, easy data recovery and generally is pretty easy to manage. I admit that when I first started looking at postgres on Kubernetes I was pretty skeptical but it’s honestly given me very little to complain about. It does have […]
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Traefik Adventures
At work I was looking into ways to decrease our AWS Public IP usage. We, along with the rest of the world were hit with monthly cost of using too many IP addresses. And it was not a total surprise since AWS announced this was coming, the price tag was a bit of shock though […]
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AWS Solution Architect Professional
I had let my AWS Solution Architect Professional certification expire as I didn’t have a lot of spare time during my previous role. So I figured now with my surplus of time I would work on renewing it. A Cloud Guru For all my AWS certifications so far I had used A Cloud Guru and it worked […]
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One Year of Mailcow
I’ve been hosting my personal domain’s email on Mailcow for over a year now after Google apps started charging for their service and I have to say it works pretty good. I had an good architecture to start but needed to iterate on the design of the infrastructure. A few things that changed was I did swap […]
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Replacing Google Workspaces
So with the announcement that my freeloading for email hosting on Google is coming to an end I decided to go down the road of setting up my own email server as I figured since I was going to have to pay for email going forward why not just host it. Is this a good idea? I’m […]
