A short post while I am thinking about this - because I sorta figured it out. I am still working on sunsetting my monolithic server (well, it's a glorified desktop with relatively more storage than other hosts on my network), and was working on setting up CheckMK on a newly minted VM. CheckMK is an open-source …

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And just like that, all my base are belong to Cloudflare. It started with DNS ... It started out pretty simply: Cloudflare offered front-end caching for your website, provided you ran your DNS through them. They would proxy the connections for me, provide SSL (through Lets Encrypt), and I could still update DNS through …

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