Using Cloudflare to increase analytics accuracy

My previous CloudFlare post talked about how to use their proxy service to protect internal devices on your home LAN. In this post, I'll talk about how you can use their proxy service to mask a hosted analytics service to your own domain. Somewhere between…

By Jonathan Poland

Improving IoT device security using Cloudflare

Many people run a few "internal" services on their home networks. I have a Raspberry Pi running Plex. A synology NAS running some docker containers and other things. Your router probably has a web interface, which hopefully isn't wide open to the outside world. My…

By Jonathan Poland

Self-hosted analytics review 2021

I've been hosting my own web analytics with Countly on Digitial Ocean for awhile now. It's pretty maintenance free. I had one hiccup where the logs filled the disks, but otherwise, it just keeps working. However, the version is old, and newer versions no longer…

By Jonathan Poland

Synthesis "School" Review: Look elsewhere

If you have kids, you've probably become more involved in their schooling since the COVID pandemic started. Unschooling, homeschooling, online schooling, and more...there are many options in this growing space. I came across Synthesis school on Twitter and tried it out. In this article, I…

By Jonathan Poland