Meta:About

This website owned and operated by me, Thomas. This is where I write about things that I learn, build and find interesting. Say hi!

Web stack

Web stack layout

• Haproxy
• Varnish HTTP cache
• NGINX
• PHP7
• MariaDB
• Redis
• Elasticsearch
• Ubuntu 18.04

Apps and scripts

• Job runner bash script
• ImageMagick (thumbnail generation)
• Mathoid; cli (Math extension)
• Poppler-utils; pdfinfo, pdftotext (PdfHandler extension)

MediaWiki

See the Special:Version page for version and extension information.

Running cost

So what does it cost per month to keep a website like this going?

Service	What	Cost
Hetzner Cloud	VPS	$13
Plausible	Privacy-focused web analytics	$4
BunnyCDN	Asset hosting	$0.5
Coconut	Video encoding	$0.5
Domeneshop	Domain name	$1
updown.io	Website monitoring	$0.5
Cloudflare	DNS	$0
Report-URI	Real-time reporting	$0
Grand total		$19.5

Domain name

September 2020 the domain was changed again — this time to cavelab.dev.

I've been using the uCtrl name for this site for a long time... I first got the domain uctrl.net back in 2009, uctrl.org in 2017, and uctrl.dev in 2019. The "u" represents both μ (micro) and you, "ctrl" is of course control.

Late 2019 I decided to change it to stdout.no (stdout meaning Standard Output — "the default file descriptor where a process can write output.") There was a few reasons for this;

• I really liked it; it is short and sweet, and was available.
• The standard output definition fits very well with what this site is; a dumping ground for my projects, notes and thoughts.
• I wanted a .no domain, as they are handled by the Norwegian state-owned non-profit organization Norid.

Inspiration

Here are some blogs that I have looked to for inspiration;

• Ctrl blog
• Code with Hugo
• Victor Zhou