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Recently, I was sitting in a cafe in St Thomas and I was very frustrated to learn that even though I could browse the internet on their fast, free wifi, I was not able to call or text without spending huge amounts of money because I was outside the continental US. This struck me as… Continue reading Moving My Phone Number to The Cloud with Google Voice

Last year, I switched to T-Mobile; a choice which has come with lots of perks. One of them was that they gave me a free router. This router supports the 802.11ac standard which means it forms very good connections to devices because of new nanotech in the antennas that allow “beam-forming” to focus the energy… Continue reading How I Got a Free $180 Asus RT-AC68U Router

This post is part of a larger series about Building a Cloud at Home For Free as part of building scalable web applications from the ground up. Here we are focusing specifically on installing Debian an old G4 Mac Mini. If you are trying to setup Debian in a virtual server inside Windows, check out… Continue reading Installing Debian on a Mac Mini G4

This post is part of a larger series about Building a Cloud at Home For Free as part of building scalable web applications from the ground up. This post starts at the point of setting the server up to be able to send emails. If you still need to setup your hypervisor and virtual server… Continue reading Setting Up Debian as a Postfix Mail Server

This post is part of a larger series about Building a Cloud at Home For Free as part of building scalable web applications from the ground up. This post starts at the point of setting up our LAMP stack on the a new Debian server. If you still need to setup your hypervisor, virtual server… Continue reading Setting up Debian as a LAMP Server

This post is part of a larger series about Building a Cloud at Home For Free as part of building scalable web applications from the ground up. This post starts at the very beginning of setting up the servers. It assumes you are familiar with the game plan from the previous post mentioned above. Once… Continue reading Installing Virtualbox and Debian on Windows 10