Following on from my post last year about the upcoming new charges in AWS for public IPv4 addresses, I've found more optimisations some might find useful.I like to have things all "under one roof" but often the financial savings are worth having a couple of different suppliers. AWS charge users...
Will the upcoming new AWS charges help stop our addiction to IPv4 or is Amazon "taxing fresh air", that is, charging us for something that's hard to give up? Uptake of IPv6 has been painfully slow (see https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-public-ipv4-address-charge-public-ip-insights) but for a user of EC2 for personal services at home I will...
I am currently working on numerous projects for the Solis/Ginlong inverter using the ESP32 S3 microcontroller. For these projects I needed these connectors and have bought a bucket load for resale. These genuine Exceedconn connectors are in stock and you can buy them from my eBay store. Same day dispatch...
This article is work in progress and at this time is a scratch space so I don't lose my notes. After some research it seems the internet is full of really bad advice on setting up postfix on Ubuntu. Most articles will get you up and running but leave you...
Some useful URLs
For many years now I've wanted to tackle the problem of SPAM e-mail. The source is quite simple, it comes from phishing attacks where you enter your e-mail address into a fake site, or idiotic chain e-mails that contain countless addresses. Perhaps even more sinister, addresses are harvested from hacking...
A cheat sheet for iptables
A quick reference sheet for some useful postfix tools