FTL Blog

The easiest way to optimize your videos for the web

April 3, 2024

The webvids terminal app streamlines the process of converting videos into efficient x265 and AV1 formats which deliver high-quality video with minimal bandwidth across a wide range of browsers.

A simple guide to reliable email deliverability in WordPress

August 12, 2023

For WordPress website owners, ensuring that emails are reliably delivered to recipients' inboxes is paramount. Poor email deliverability can lead to missed opportunities, frustrated users, and negatively impact your online reputation. One effective way to address this challenge is setting up SMTP for your site.

Cloudflare Tunnel: Expose services to the internet without compromising your firewall

November 3, 2021

Let's say you have a website running locally that you want to make publicly accessible. Pretty straightforward, right? Open up ports 80 / 443, maybe set up a reverse proxy, and add an A record pointing to your IP. Job done. Your site is online. Unfortunately, you’ve also made yourself a target by advertising your IP and opening your ports.

Backing up databases inside docker containers

November 1, 2021

We recently posted a guide to get up and running with the great backup tool Kopia and received a question asking if it was possible to use the Kopia installation on the host to back up container databases as well.

Fast and reliable automated cloud backups with Kopia and Backblaze

October 29, 2021

Kopia is a fantastic open source backup tool that offers encryption, compression, deduplication, and versioned incremental snapshots of your data. It’s very simple to set up and, in our experience, quite a bit faster than alternatives like Borg (which doesn’t integrate with cloud storage providers) and Restic (which doesn’t include compression). It supports Linux / Windows / macOS, and even has a GUI application if you’re into that sort of thing.

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