Welcome to the Digital Asylum: A Self-Hosting Guide for Beginners Greetings, fellow data-hoarders and digital rebels! You’ve probably spent years feeding your precious memories, documents, and secrets to the big tech “cloud” giants, only to realize that the “cloud” is just someone else’s computer—and that someone else is charging you rent to look at your […]
Welcome, you beautiful, data-enslaved peasants. You’ve spent the last decade handing over your precious photos, your embarrassing search history, and your soul to the corporate overlords at Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. You pay them monthly for the privilege of letting them mine your data. Wong Edan says: enough is enough! You want to self-host? You […]
Welcome to the Asylum: The “Wong Edan” Guide to Mail Servers Greetings, you beautiful, digital masochists! Welcome to the corner of the internet where logic goes to die and frustration is the primary currency. I am your host, the Wong Edan of tech, and today we are diving head-first into the shark-infested waters of self-hosting […]
Welcome to the Asylum: Why Your Homelab Needs a Front Door Greetings, fellow data-hoarders, rack-mounters, and those of you who find the hum of a 1U server more soothing than a forest stream. They call me Wong Edan, and if you’re reading this, it’s because your browser bookmarks look like a digital landfill. You’ve got […]
Greetings, fellow data hoarders, bandwidth junkies, and those of you who find more joy in a blinking green LED than in human interaction. Welcome to my digital sanctuary. They call me “Wong Edan”—the crazy one—because while the rest of the world is busy handing over their digital souls (and twenty bucks a month) to Netflix, […]
Welcome to the Asylum: Why Self-Hosting is the Only Sane Choice Greetings, fellow digital wanderers and data-hoarding lunatics. If you have found yourself browsing the r/selfhosted subreddit at three in the morning, wondering why you are paying Google, Dropbox, and Netflix for the privilege of spying on you, then you have come to the right […]