Networking

As a SysAdmin, I usually focus on encryption protocols and firewalls. But at home, my “clients” (my wife and my 8-year-old daughter) don’t care about AES-256 encryption. They just want to know: “Why can’t I watch ‘My Neighbor Totoro’ on Netflix?” The answer, as many of you know, is Geo-Blocking. Netflix shows different content depending … Read more

Deploying a high-performance server on Vultr is the first step. Securing it with SSH hardening and a VPN is the second. But how do you know if your website or application is truly accessible to users in London, Tokyo, or New York without any regional blocks? Standard VPNs use datacenter IPs which are often flagged … Read more