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How To Create A VPS In AWS The Easy Way With Amazon Lightsail

Amazon Lightsail makes it easy for anyone, at any skill level, to create a VPS in AWS with little more than a few clicks. On the surface, AWS may seem intimidating with over 175 service offerings with acronyms like EC2, EBS, and VPC – it’s enough to make even a seasoned professional steer away from as AWS isn’t necessarily known for its ease of entry. So, today I want to share an Amazon service comparable to some of the more well known budget VPS providers out there like Digital Ocean, Vultr, and Linode. Amazon Lightsail makes it easy for anyone, at any skill level, to create a VPS in AWS with little more than a few clicks. So, if you’ve been wanting to take the

Rick Jacobo January 25, 2021

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How To Use A Digital Ocean VPS And Caddy As A Reverse Proxy For A Self Hosted Raspberry Pi Website (Behind A Firewall) Using An SSH Reverse Tunnel

This tutorial is inspired by a question posted on the Rasberry Pi Stack Exchange site titled “Website behind Firewall: How to SSL through a Reverse SSH Tunnel?”. A little background. The person posting the question is using a Raspberry Pi to host a website and has opened a reverse SSH tunnel from their Raspberry Pi to a VPS..for the sake of this tutorial, a Digital Ocean VPS. The original poster has pointed DNS for a custom domain to the Digital Ocean VPS and would like to know how to access the Pi’s website from said domain. In this tutorial we will cover setting up a self hosted website using a Raspberry Pi and Docker. Obtaining and setting up a Digital Ocean VPS. Installing Caddy on

Rick Jacobo January 22, 2021