Self-Host

It’s a moment of sudden panic when your reliable Oracle Cloud Always Free instance is disabled and you encounter an error message stating: Instance is disabled and will not accept any action requests. Please contact customer support to reenable. Before you rush to delete the instance or rebuild your server, pause. There’s an effective recovery process you can follow to regain access to your self-hosted services with minimal disruption. This guide will walk you through the steps that helped me recover my services smoothly when Oracle reduced the Ampere A1 allowance. ...

Setting up a custom UI for a self-hosted private registry with Portainer can be a great way to manage your Docker images and control access to them. In this blog post, I’ll walk through the steps to set up a custom UI for a private registry using Portainer, a popular open-source tool for managing Docker containers. Step 1: Set up a private registry The first step in setting up a custom UI for a self-hosted private registry is to set up the registry itself. You can do this by running the following command: ...

Configuring an SMTP Server on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure can be a useful way to send email messages from your applications or services. However, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will block Port 25 by default and it cannot be removed by configuring engress rule in the security list. To bypass it, you will need to create an Email Relay in the Oracle Cloud Infarstracture. In this blog, I will show you how to configure the SMTP relay on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). ...