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# New Year New Beginnings
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## Long Break
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Whew, it has been a long time since this website was up. Talk about
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downtime. Long story short, I got a new job as a Cloud Engineer. I moved
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to a new rental that did not have a router that supported port
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forwarding. I was not about to replace the shared WiFi and work got busy
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and yeah you get the idea. The website went down. My server is sleeping
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in the storage bin. Well that did not take long. Anyway, new year new
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me.
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## Hosting Problems
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What do I do when self-hosting is now an issue? Time to turn to the
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\"cloud\". Turns out the cloud just means that your data is now hosted
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by another organization\'s computers. We are all familiar with the wry
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jokes about cloud platform by now. Anyway, I looked into what are the
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available free tier options that we have now. Thanks to past me, this
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site is just a bunch of static files ready to go, so hosting this site
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is not hard.
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Since I am already going with a cloud provider, I have higher
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requirements than just \"Nginx/Apache in a VM\". I looked into solutions
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that provides high availability worldwide and can remove maintenance
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headaches from self-hosting; or as the cool kids say, serverless
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solutions. If I am going to sacrifice my own privacy by not owning my
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own hosting, I am not letting the sacrifice go in vain. Here are my
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impressions of the options that I have explored.
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- Microso - No.
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- Google Cloud Load Balancer + Google Cloud Storage Bucket backend :
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Load Balancer not included in free tier.
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- Oracle Cloud Free Tier : Generous VM sizes but no serverless
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solution.
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- AWS CloudFront + S3 Storage : Generous free tier but configuration
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is quite complex.
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- Cloudflare R2 + Page Rules : Generous free tier but confusing
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dashboard.
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- Hetzner Cloud : Need a certain level of consumption to take
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advantage of the cheap VMs, and no serverless solution.
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There are a couple of smaller or niche cloud providers, but most of them
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do not have worldwide presence or do not have a good free tier. For
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those that do, it is not a serverless solution, so this was enough
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research for me.
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Ultimately I went with Cloudflare. It took me less than an hour to set
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up my Cloudflare account and billing, upload my files into R2, and then
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configure the one page rule I need to redirect www.clementchiew.me to
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the index.html file. It was pretty delightful to be able to hand over
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management of SSL certificates and have QUIC support right out of the
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gate. I do have my hestitations with Cloudflare, but being able to take
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advantage of Cloudflare\'s free R2 egress and free up my cognitive load
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of web server management is quite valuable to me.
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## What\'s Next
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There have been so many changes in the past year, both worldwide and in
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my personal life. I have so much to write about and so many ideas that I
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want to note down. See me here again soon.
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> Home isn\'t where you\'re from, it\'s where you find light when all
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> grows dark.\
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> - Pierce Brown, Golden Son
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