2026-07-08
Introduction One unpleasant scenario on Windows Server is when Remote Desktop suddenly stops working, while from the outside everything looks “almost normal”:
port 3389 is open; the Remote Desktop Services …
Read more2026-06-24
There is a MikroTik router that goes to the Internet via WAN1. While there is only one gateway — everything works. As soon as a second WAN, a VPN tunnel with BGP routes, or just specific /32 prefixes appear in the main …
Read more2026-06-12
Update: June 2026 Guide verified for accuracy.
What’s changed:
Docker Compose V2 — since Docker Engine 23+, the docker-compose command (with hyphen) has been replaced by docker compose (no hyphen, built-in plugin). …
Read more2026-06-03
Introduction Choosing a web server and reverse proxy today depends on tasks and infrastructure. Caddy, Traefik, HAProxy, Nginx, and Apache are five popular solutions, each with its strengths and weaknesses.
In this …
Read more2026-06-02
Vaultwarden — a lightweight implementation of the Bitwarden server written in Rust. It consumes only about 30 MB of RAM (instead of gigabytes for the official server), supports all official Bitwarden clients, and …
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Standard tools like proxychains often fail when it comes to multithreaded applications, Go/Rust binaries, Electron apps and system services. Enter tun2socks — a tool that creates a virtual TUN network interface, …
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In the previous article we deployed our own Vaultwarden server. Today — how to work with it from the console and integrate it into automation.
Bitwarden CLI (the bw utility) — the official open-source command-line tool. …
Read more2026-06-01
MikroTik administrators have long faced a classic architectural dilemma. Imagine this: you have a single public IP address, but behind it you need to publish several web services on the standard HTTPS port 443.
For …
Read more2026-05-30
The backbone dynamic routing protocol BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) is traditionally associated with enterprise hardware or full-fledged Linux servers. However, in modern realities the task of building resilient VPN …
Read more2026-05-29
In a world where data volume grows faster than GPU prices, the question “Where to store files?” becomes critical. Google Drive and iCloud are convenient but expensive and not unlimited. External hard drives …
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