Howya folks, as one of my earlier blog posts I’d enjoy providing you with some context on the motivation behind this one. I have an aim to become a regular blogger to share the lessons I learn as I build and develop tech, almost always as my impulse drives me in fairness. As I was attempting a first post I realised that I’d feel compelled to go into significant detail about some of the underlying tech I’d already set-up and thus I know for my own sake I don’t enjoy that style of post particularly if it’s a tutorial, as that one was. Instead I’ve chosen to force you all to open up multiple ultimately eating into the coveted RAM your python program will inevitably require.
I digress, I’m going to assume that there’s value in the content I publish so that should be matched in effort, so I hope to have my own material to provide as context for some of the tech I’ll skim over in future posts. Today we’re going to talk about Hatfer, a thrifty cloud provider based in Germany with multiple locations in the USA, EU, and Singapore. I don’t speak to how good they are for profit or sponsorship but because I use them as a smaller client, lurk on their unofficial sub-reddit, and am constantly tinkering with my VPS’s, Baremetal Servers, and Storage solutions, at times simple because their interface is easy to use.
In time, I hope to present you with my content and media playback solution, my library of books, how I make my life easier in managing these services, and CI/CD pipelines using Hatfer, Coify, and Gab, where all you have to pay for is the compute and storage.
I’ve been using Hafner for a little over a year now to host a number of services, Coify, Giab, Sharktail, this blog, my service account email services, SSO. This is both directly on their infrastructure, or using their infrastructure as a proxy to manage my personal compute power at home – an essential for any home-labber