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This post describes how to set up a Debian 13 machine to run FastAPI applications with option to have different Python versions and virtual Python environments. This post does NOT contain detailed step-by-step instructions for the setup, only the parts that I consider important to…

It's more convenient to read all your mail in one inbox. To have LogWatch or other reports delivered to your mailbox, Exim4 needs to be configured as smarthost. In my case Exim comes as a dependency of LogWatch. Exim config /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf is below. dc_eximconfig_configtype='smarthost' dc_other_hostnames='HOSTNAME' dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1…

One of my machines is serving public users and it is behind NAT. Besides DHCP IP address reservation and Port Forwarding, it needed a hostname. I am using the below script to update the DDNS. #!/bin/bash IP_FILE="/tmp/ddns-ip.txt" # Try to get current IP, capture both…

Free open-source email self-hosting solution Mail-in-a-Box provides hosting for static HTML websites. Publii is a desktop-based CMS for Windows, Mac and Linux that makes creating static websites fast and hassle-free, even for beginners. Publii has a way to upload the data to the server using…

Mail-in-a-Box provides a robust network security with fail2ban and ufw out of the box. However I do not like multiple sshd entries in my LogWatch (yes! SourceForge is alive in 2025!), so I decided to protect SSH with fwknop - a free and open source…