gTLD lifecycle

(source: ICANN)

As you are probably aware of, a typical gTLD or nTLD domain runs through multiple phases after it’s expiration date. The last of which is the pendingDelete status which typically lasts 5 days.

If you are serious about getting a domain, it is these very 5 days on which you should become active. (at latest).

Since I still have a reseller account with 1blu business GmbH, I’m going to illustrate howto setup a cronjob for their domain robot. The steps required to set this up, will varry quite a bit.

Privacy for my users: No more Analytics on my Websites

Just a short info: I’ve decided to remove the Matomo tracking code from my websites.

I value my own privacy when surfing online and so it occured to me, that I should respect the privacy of my users just the same.

I’m also thinking of replacing the DISQUS feature as it also includes way to many privacy traps (aka social networks).

german (english version below)

Leider werde ich aus gesundheitlichen Gründen alle Voraussicht nach nicht am Baltic Honey Badger teilnehemen können, bzw. wenn dann nur Remote als Zuschauer. Ich hatte mich so auf den BTCPay Day gefreut. Aber manchmal macht einem die Gesundheit einen fetten Strich durch die Rechnung.

Ich wünsche allen Teilnehmenden und dem Team von BTCPay Server eine spannende Konferenz.

english

Sadly I won’t be able to attend the Baltic Honey Badger event. If possible I will be joining in remotely as listener. I was so hyped about participating this year, but sometimes you own well beeing can come in the way of things.

Ich überlege eine deutschsprachige Tutorial Serie für Webshop Händler zu BTCPayServer zu machen. Alles von:

• Bestellung eigener vServer / Einrichtung eines Raspberry PI
• Installation Betriebssystem + docker + btcpayserver
• Einstellung von Port-Forwarding um BTCPayServer im Clearnet verfügbar zu machen
• Einrichtung in gängigen Shop Systemen (Shopify, Woocommerce, individuelle Integration für PHP Entwickler)

Was meint ihr wäre das richtige Format dafür? Ich denke an eine Serie von Blog Artikeln und ein paar Screencasts/youtube Videos.

After working with docker day in and out for almost 2 years, it feels like I’ve been missing out on the best parts of the whole container ecosystem.

I’ve signed up for a cheap managed K8s offer with free credits to start with.

They have a great CLI tool - doctl - which you can use to spin up clusters automatically, generate your kubectl config file including oAuth keys and all that good stuff.

After about 1,5 years on a hetzner dedicated server which I was heavily under-utilizing, I finally decided to move all my family related websites and emails to a Netcup KVM server. This is definitly saving me a buck or two per month and is still more than enough power to run all my services.

I also made the move from Apache to nginx which brought some difficulties with getting Nextcloud to run properly. More on that in a future blog post.

Welcome to my personal blog. Here I will ramble about cool technologies and everyday life stuff.