We like having Discord bots to automate things. Nobody wants to deal with hosting them. Or worse, some people run them from their home network (nah). In this post, part of my ongoing free cloud infrastructure series, I’ll show you how I host a Discord bot that manages my FoundryVTT...
Well. I did it. I’ve been on a mission to run my entire infrastructure for free. Not just cheap, but actually $0 per month. AWS got me partway there, but between surprise charges and fees just to check usage, it wasn’t cutting it. We’re still running some AWS stuff. But...
Let’s be honest: nothing in the cloud is truly free. But with a bit of effort and automation, you can get surprisingly close. This post covers how I run my personal infrastructure including a FoundryVTT game server, a portfolio site, and DNS for basically nothing. If you’re able to set...
I’ve got a single Lightsail instance, and somehow it’s serving my Jekyll blog, FoundryVTT game server, Netdata dashboard, and a few other odds and ends—all behind proper TLS with reverse proxies, authentication where I need it, and without breaking the bank… and I’m still adding. This post is a quick...