I'm sure you have come across web and mobile applications where they offer social logins such as Google, Facebook, Twitter and many more. This is great, as its one less sign up and login you have to remember. It also reduces the friction of signing up. It's especially great if…»

After having discovered Traefik accidentally via a simple HN comment from the community, I find it fantastic. It's a great alternative and relatively simple to use reverse proxy and load balancer. Especially for dockerized web applications. In my previous post I wrote about setting up Nginx as a reverse proxy…»

I originally wrote this as a single post to document how I deployed an ASP.NET Core application on DigitalOcean. I also setup a web server using Nginx and setup SSL for free using Lets Encrypt and finally added some basic security with Fail2ban. I soon realised, it became rather…»

In this post, I will talk through how to install Nginx as a reverse proxy and configure SSL for free with the help of Let's Encrypt and Docker. I will be using DigitalOcean, but any Linux machine with Docker installed will also work. So, What is Nginx reverse proxy? If…»

When I managed to deploy an ASP.NET core app on Linux with Nginx, I noticed a lot of rogue and spam internet traffic in the Nginx logs. Mostly mild hacking attempts and rather a lot of php requests. Its mostly noise, but I wanted a way of banning these…»

Learn how to setup a Linux machine with Docker using DigitalOcean with just a few clicks.…»

An intro into docker files, docker build, docker run whats the difference and how they all come together with docker compose…»

Docker has come a long way since I first came across it in 2015, and now that Microsoft have lot's of support and with the addition of in-built docker tools in Visual Studio, I thought it was time for me to pick up it up. What is Docker in simple…»