Build Your Own Secure Personal Cloud
Build Your Own Secure Personal Cloud
Take back control of your private data.
About the Book
Build a small, private network of Linux servers to securely store and transport your private data across your various devices.
Securely share Contacts, Email, Photos, Files, Music and Notes across all your computers, smart phones and tablets, without the need for third party companies such as Google, Dropbox or Apple iCloud.
About the Author
Table of Contents
- About The Author
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright, Trademarks, Disclaimers and Feedback.
-
Introduction
- Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability.
- Why we keep secrets and why we all need privacy
- The modern Internet, privacy and your data.
- Why I wrote this book
- What this book covers
- Who should buy this book
- What this book isn’t
- Notes at the start you must read.
-
1. The Cloud Design
- What you will need
- Storing files securely on USB or Hard Disk
-
2. Certificates and Keys
- A simple little primer Public Key Encryption
- OpenSSL
- Creating Your Certificate Authority
- Publish Your CA Certificate
-
Importing your CA into various devices.
- Firefox
- Chrome
- Internet Explorer
- Android
- Creating Certificates
- A bit about easy-rsa
- make-key.sh
-
SSH Keys
- Creating an SSH key pair on Linux and Mac
- Creating an SSH key pair with Windows
-
3. Domain Names and Networking
- Services we’ll use
- Domain Name
- Virtual Private Cloud
- IP Addresses
- DNS Records
-
Create Security Groups
- VPN Host
- Web/Mail Server
- Import your SSH Key Pairs
-
4. Building the Linux Boxes.
-
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Building the Amazon EC2 Servers
- Assign Elastic IPs
-
Logging in and configuring AWS Servers
- SSH Into your new server:
- Change it’s hostname
- Set Nameservers
- Set your time-zone:
- Add Swap
- Install Patches and Utilities
-
Installing VMware ESXi
- Booting ESXi
- Installing ESXi
-
Configuring ESXi
- The ESXi Home Screen
- Set a Static IP
-
Building Ubuntu Servers on vSphere
- Downloading Ubuntu
- Installing vSphere console
- Uploading the Ubuntu ISO to the vSphere server
- Building your two VMs
-
The Ubuntu Installation Process
- Starting the VMs
- Starting the Ubuntu Installer
- Location Settings
- Setting Names
- Disk Setup
- The install process
- Setting Timezone
- Final Steps – Logging in and patching
-
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
-
5. The VPN Server
- Now for something really fun.
- Differences between the two servers
-
External VPN - Connect in from anywhere
- Installing OpenVPN Access Server.
- Installing your Certificates on the Web Interface
- Downloading your profile
- Internal VPN - Connect your cloud servers securely
- Installing your certificates into OpenVPN
- Fixed IP Addresses for your servers.
-
6. Mail and Web server.
- Control Panel Software
-
Database
- Amazon RDS
- Mail Server
- Web Server Software
- Securing The Administration Interface with your Own Certificates
- Securing your email server
- Adding a domain
- Adding an email user
-
7. File, Contact and Calendar Server
- The most awesome bit.
- Props to the programmers
- Super Secure
- Installing NextCloud
- Building your Home Data Silo
-
Encrypting files on the server
- Testing the encryption
- Storing your admin recovery key
- Limitations
-
8. Getting your data back
- Exporting from Google
-
Downloading all email to your mailserver
- Some notes on maildir
- A Recipe with getmail
- Downloading your contacts
- Downloading your calendar
- Downloading your tasks list
- Importing contacts into NextCloud
- Importing calendar into Cloud
- Moving from Dropbox
-
9. Server Hardening
- Make sure you get all the mail for root
- SSHGuard
- Apticron
- Logwatch
- Stop services you won’t use
- Harden
-
10. Lets Encrypt
- Securing the Sentora Control Panel with LetsEncrypt
- Certificates for individual domains
-
11. Becoming a Spam Ninja
- I thought spam was dead!
- What is Spam
- Anti-Spam Legislation
- Use your brain!
- Postfix
- If it smells like spam and looks like spam…
-
12. Data Hygiene and Bad Habits you can just avoid.
- duckduckgo.com
- TOR
- LastPass
- OK is not OK
- Antivus doesn’t help much
- Appendix A. Known Issues and Workarounds
-
Appendix B. Important Files and Useful Commands
- Web and Mail Server
- References
- Notes
Authors have earned$10,095,386writing, publishing and selling on Leanpub, earning 80% royalties while saving up to 25 million pounds of CO2 and up to 46,000 trees.
Learn more about writing on Leanpub
The Leanpub 45-day 100% Happiness Guarantee
Within 45 days of purchase you can get a 100% refund on any Leanpub purchase, in two clicks.
See full terms
Free Updates. DRM Free.
If you buy a Leanpub book, you get free updates for as long as the author updates the book! Many authors use Leanpub to publish their books in-progress, while they are writing them. All readers get free updates, regardless of when they bought the book or how much they paid (including free).
Most Leanpub books are available in PDF (for computers), EPUB (for phones and tablets) and MOBI (for Kindle). The formats that a book includes are shown at the top right corner of this page.
Finally, Leanpub books don't have any DRM copy-protection nonsense, so you can easily read them on any supported device.
Learn more about Leanpub's ebook formats and where to read them
Top Books
- #1
C++20
Rainer GrimmC++20 is the next big C++ standard after C++11. As C++11 did it, C++20 changes the way we program modern C++. This change is, in particular, due to the big four of C++20: ranges, coroutines, concepts, and modules.
The book is almost daily updated. These incremental updates ease my interaction with the proofreaders.
- #2
A Guide to Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
Dr. Bertalan MeskoCan we stay human in the age of A.I.? To go even further, can we grow in humanity, can we shape a more humane, more equitable and sustainable healthcare? This e-book aims to prepare healthcare and medical professionals for the era of human-machine collaboration. Read our guide to understanding, anticipating and controlling artificial intelligence.
- #3
Atomic Kotlin
Bruce Eckel and Svetlana IsakovaFor both beginning and experienced programmers! From the author of the multi-award-winning Thinking in C++ and Thinking in Java together with a member of the Kotlin language team comes a book that breaks the concepts into small, easy-to-digest "atoms," along with exercises supported by hints and solutions directly inside IntelliJ IDEA!
- #4
C++ Best Practices
Jason TurnerLevel up your C++, get the tools working for you, eliminate common problems, and move on to more exciting things!
- #5
Introducing EventStorming
Alberto BrandoliniThe deepest tutorial and explanation about EventStorming, straight from the inventor.
- #6
Ansible for DevOps
Jeff GeerlingAnsible is a simple, but powerful, server and configuration management tool. Learn to use Ansible effectively, whether you manage one server—or thousands.
- #7
Everyday Rails - RSpecによるRailsテスト入門
Junichi Ito (伊藤淳一), AKIMOTO Toshiharu, 魚振江, and Aaron SumnerRSpecを使ってRailsアプリケーションに信頼性の高いテストを書く実践的なアドバイスを提供します。詳細で丁寧な説明は本書のオリジナルコンテンツです。また、説明には実際に動かせるサンプルアプリケーションも使用します。本書は2017年版にアップデートされ、RSpec 3.6やRails 5.1といった新しい環境に対応しています！さあ、自信をもってテストできるようになりましょう！
- #8
R Programming for Data Science
Roger D. PengThis book brings the fundamentals of R programming to you, using the same material developed as part of the industry-leading Johns Hopkins Data Science Specialization. The skills taught in this book will lay the foundation for you to begin your journey learning data science. Printed copies of this book are available through Lulu.
- #9
The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book
Andriy BurkovEverything you really need to know in Machine Learning in a hundred pages.
- #10
Continuous Delivery Pipelines
Dave FarleyThis practical handbook provides a step-by-step guide for you to get the best continuous delivery pipeline for your software.
Top Bundles
- #1
Software Architecture for Developers: Volumes 1 & 2 - Technical leadership and communication
2 Books
"Software Architecture for Developers" is a practical and pragmatic guide to modern, lightweight software architecture, specifically aimed at developers. You'll learn:The essence of software architecture.Why the software architecture role should include coding, coaching and collaboration.The things that you really need to think about before... - #2
All the Books of The Medical Futurist
6 Books
We put together the most popular books from The Medical Futurist to provide a clear picture about the major trends shaping the future of medicine and healthcare. Digital health technologies, artificial intelligence, the future of 20 medical specialties, big pharma, data privacy, digital health investments and how technology giants such as Amazon... - #3
PowerShell
3 Books
Buy every PowerShell book from Adam Bertram at a 20% discount! - #4
Cisco CCNA 200-301 Complet
4 Books
Ce lot comprend les quatre volumes du guide préparation à l'examen de certification Cisco CCNA 200-301. - #5
Software Architecture and Beautiful APIs
2 Books
There is no better way to learn how to design good APIs than to look at many existing examples, complementing the Software Architecture theory on API design. - #6
Linux Administration Complet
4 Books
Ce lot comprend les quatre volumes du Guide Linux Administration :Linux Administration, Volume 1, Administration fondamentale : Guide pratique de préparation aux examens de certification LPIC 1, Linux Essentials, RHCSA et LFCS. Administration fondamentale. Introduction à Linux. Le Shell. Traitement du texte. Arborescence de fichiers. Sécurité... - #7
Learn Git, Bash, and Terraform the Hard Way
3 Books
Learn Git, Bash and Terraform using the Hard Way method.These technologies are essential tools in the DevOps armoury. These books walk you through their features and subtleties in a simple, gradual way that reinforces learning rather than baffling you with theory. - #8
9 Books-Bundle: Shut Up and Code!
9 Books
"Shut up and code." Laughter in the audience. The hacker had just plugged in his notebook and started sharing his screen to present his super-smart Python script. "Shut up and code" The letters written in a white literal coding font on black background was the hackers' home screen background mantra. At the time, I was a first-year computer... - #9
Mastering Containers
2 Books
Docker and Kubernetes are taking the world by storm! These books will get you up-to-speed fast! Docker Deep Dive is over 400 pages long, and covers all objectives on the Docker Certified Associate exam.The Kubernetes Book includes everything you need to get up and running with Kubernetes! - #10
CCDE Practical Studies (All labs)
3 Books
CCDE lab
