Cloud

Not long ago, I wrote about running containers as part of moving my hobby projects to European cloud providers. That post was focused on running good old Linux servers. I briefly mentioned BunnyCDN but didn’t dive into the details. It’s time to dive into the details! What the flark is a CDN? A content delivery network is a geographically distributed network of servers that can deliver content to your users, close to where they are. It’s useful, because the speed of light isn’t fast enough to make pages load quickly across the other side of the globe. Seriously, the fastest thing in the universe cannot deliver cat pictures to people quickly enough. By using a CDN, you can geographically distribute assets like cat pictures, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, video files, fonts and much more. ...

Back in February, I decided that I wanted to move hosting of my hobby projects to a european cloud provider. At this time, I don’t feel like spending more energy on why, but maybe someone can learn something from the how. I have pretty simple requirements, so I figured I should be able to find simple and inexpensive hosting too. It turns out that there are many european cloud providers in 2025, but none that were really a perfect fit for what I was looking for. Here’s what I wanted: ...