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Cake day: September 30th, 2025

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  • Currently I’m working on whatports.work in between my studies, basically its an outgoing port tester so that users can test their network’s firewall rules. It’s similar to portquiz.net, except it has a JS port check, UDP and IPv6 support, and hopefully HTTPS soon.

    I’ve also thought about getting an ASN and doing some anycast stuff. Especially since it’s hosted in Sydney currently, which adds a bunch of latency for anyone not in Australia. Also there’s a lot of port scan bots, and the server is doing its best to respond to all of them, with some rate limiting of course, but it’ll be good to distribute the load anyway.



  • I’ve been preferring mTLS recently. I still use a VPN for management, SMB/NFS, and anything important. But I use mTLS for web services that I’d like to access without having a VPN active all the time. Although, if your web service had a mobile app, usually they don’t play nicely with mTLS, so a VPN would be required for me, but Home Assistant and TrilliumDroid do have mTLS support.









  • Haha I love how this has progressed, from ‘What free VPS?’ then ‘Free VPS doesn’t work’ and now we’re at ‘What can I do without a VPS?’.

    Anyway, I was self hosting from home well before I started playing with VPSs, so it’s a good way to get started before having to spend money. And I still self host most of my infrastructure just because I prefer upfront costs to subscriptions.

    Edit: I meant to add if you don’t have a publicly routable IP or don’t want to port forward, you can use something like Cloudflare Tunnels to proxy everything through their servers.