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Uses

The stack behind the tutorials — the tools I actually run, not a wishlist.

Hosting & infrastructure

Hetzner Where most of my own infrastructure lives — fair-priced, serious hardware, EU data centres.
Ubuntu Server (LTS) The base for nearly every guide here. Boring, stable, well-documented.
Cloudflare Pages Static hosting for this very site — fast, free, nothing to babysit.

Hardening the box

UFW My default firewall, with a few custom rules.
fail2ban Adaptive bans for the noisy internet.
OpenSSH (hardened) Key-only, non-default port, no root login.
auditd Knowing what happened, after the fact.
Unattended upgrades Security patches that apply themselves.

Watching & running things

Beszel Lightweight, self-hosted server monitoring.
Umami Privacy-first, cookie-free analytics — the same ethos as this site.
Claude The AI I actually use to sharpen workflows and learn faster.

How this site is built

Astro + Keystatic Static output, Markdoc content, zero client bloat.