Wildcard LetsEncrypt SSL/TLS certificate with Bind

Having wildcard SSL certificate can sometimes really help with streamlining vhost creation, where you don’t need to step extra step for issuing new SSL/TLS certificate. Although I attempt to automate every bit of the infrastructure I manage, and also have certificate issuance automated with my current configuration management system of choice - Ansible, it is still nice to have only one certificate to worry about as it streamlines the whole process of reloading the services after renewal and so on....

September 7, 2019 · 3 min · Ivan Tomica

Self hosted email

There are many reasons why would somebody want to host their own email server. There are many advantages for doing this but there are also many drawbacks. Setting up your own mail server can certainly be a great learning experience filled with discoveries about different set of technologies, protocols and how stuff works in general. Hosting your own email server can also be a huge pain in the ass, especially if you start to have problems with spamming but I won’t go too deep into pros or the cons since, if you’re already here, you probably read a thing or two and decided for yourself if you want to host your own email server or not....

September 26, 2016 · 13 min · Ivan Tomica