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Exposing homelab services to the internet with Cloudflare Tunnel

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:24:00 +0000

In the previous post, I showed how SSH-J.com solves a specific problem: accessing a machine behind NAT via SSH, without opening ports on the router and without relying on a public IP. The reverse tunnel works well for interactive sessions and file transfers, and SSH-J.com as a jump host makes everything trivial to configure. For SSH, it remains the simplest solution I know.

But SSH is just one piece of the puzzle. Anyone who maintains a homelab — even if it’s just a mini PC under the desk or a Raspberry Pi in the corner of the room — inevitably ends up running web services: an RSS reader, a monitoring dashboard, a Gitea, a Jellyfin, an Immich. These services listen on local HTTP ports and work perfectly as long as you’re on the same network. The problem appears when you want to access them from outside — from the office, from your phone on the bus, from anywhere that isn’t your local network.

The Dark Side of Free Website: Limits and Alternatives for Hugo + GitHub + Cloudflare Pages + Pages CMS

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:45:00 +0000

In a previous post, we put together a complete blog with Hugo, GitHub, Cloudflare Pages, and Pages CMS without spending a cent. The stack works, it is fast, and for most personal blogs it will keep working for a long time without asking anything in return. But “free” does not mean “without limits,” and understanding where the walls are before you hit them is the kind of thing that saves headaches down the road.

Why leave WordPress — and what to build instead with Hugo, Pages CMS, and Cloudflare

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:10:00 +0000

Why leave WordPress

The weight of running a dynamic CMS

WordPress is an extraordinary piece of software that powers nearly half the internet. That said, keeping a WordPress installation healthy is a job that never ends. Every visit to your site triggers a chain of events: the server receives the request, PHP wakes up, queries MySQL, assembles the page on the fly, and sends the HTML back to the browser. Multiply that by a hundred simultaneous visitors and you have a server sweating to deliver pages that, on most blogs, are exactly the same for everyone.