mas regular links
Internet services
- Applications tracked for building from source
- Git and issue tracking hosts
- VPS, transit and hosting services
- DNS and domain name services
- Coding workspace
- TLS certificates, public keys and related services
- File backup, sync and storage
- Email and messaging
- Other
- Applications tracked for building from source
- NGiИX news, tracking Nginx-1.17 mainline.
- OpenSSL downloads, tracking OpenSSL-1.1.1.
- PCRE ftp site, tracking pcre-8.
- PHP Hypertext Preprocessor downloads tracking current stable PHP-7.3.
- tidy-html5 from HTACG, tracking latest version. Reference for version 5.2.0 is online.
- File compression utilities including brotli, butteraugli, guetzli, lepton and zopfli.
- Git and issue tracking hosts
- Bitbucket git repositories.
- GitHub git repositories and community features. Github is free for open source projects. All paid accounts have unlimited private repositories. My repos are in /ansdell.
- GitLab git repositories with large file support, issue tracking and wikis. Available to run on your own servers as a free community edition and as an enterprise edition. The enterprise addition is also available hosted by GitLab for free public and private repositories.
- VPS, transit and hosting services
- Digital Ocean sells virtual servers, of various sizes in several global locations, by the hour or the month. This is a referral link: at the time of writing, a new customer using this link would get a $100 credit. I have two Digital Ocean droplets running CentOS 7.6.1810. These complement a third remote server running CentOS 7.6.1810.
- Hurricane Electric IPv4 and IPv6 backbone
and transit network operator. HE also provides
- IPv6 6in4 Tunnelbroker service
- DNS management
- IPv6 certification (I’m certified as Sage and have the T-shirt to prove it :-).
- Linode instant Linux VPS deployment. I have a referral link for linode.com: at the time of writing it gives a $20 service credit when opening a new account.
- Scaleway cloud servers and VPS, part of Online.net.
- SDF, Super Dimension Fortress. SDF operates a mastodon instance at mastodon.sdf.org.
- sdf-eu.org, EU version of the SDF
- Vultr Linux VPSs. At the time of writing, this Vultr referral link gives credit when opening a new account.
- DNS and domain name services
- dnsimple managed DNS service.
- EasyDNS domain management, based in Canada.
- enom domain management, based in USA.
- Google domains
- Joker domain management, part of CSL (Computer Service Langenbach GmbH), Düsseldorf.
- OpenSRS domain names, hosted email and SSL certificates.
- Daniel Miessler has a DNS primer with a list of records.
- DNS performance comparison by Nykolas Z in Medium, April 2018, looks at Google 8.8.8.8, 9.9.9.9 (usingIBM address space), Cloudflare 1.1.1.1, OpenDNS and more.
- Coding workspaces
- codepen.io for web front-end demonstrations and testing. Pens can be embedded and are editable and responsive. Has a huge range of options and facilities including PHP and CSS linting; and testing pens using a free crossbrowsertesting.com service. All public pens are under an MIT licence.
- Glot.io hosts and runs snippets server-side in a range of languages. Glot.io has an API and is open source.
- jsbin provides live collaborative HTML, CSS and JavaScript pastebins. Paid accounts have Dropbox sync and private bins.
- Pastebin.com for storing and sharing code snippets. Pro users have https links after login..
- TLS certificates, public keys and related services
- AlwaysOnSSL free, automated Certification Authority run by CertCenter and DigiCert.
- keybase.io public directory of auditable public keys.
- letsencrypt.org offer free 90-day Domain Validation certificates, including wildcards, intended for automated deployment.
- SSLs.com X.509 certificate suppliers.
- File backup, sync and storage
- Adobe Document Cloud for file storage and processing as part of Adobe Acrobat DC.
- Dropbox file synchronisation service. The software is not wholly free or open-source but it does have clients for both GNU/Linux and Android. Dropbox offers some free space and has useful attributes including O’Reilly book synchronisation. With personal accounts, prior versions are kept for 30 days by default: on Pro accounts this can be extended to a year with the chargeable Extended History add-on; some older accounts may have opted to retain the discontinued Packrat option that offered unlimited deletion recovery and version history. Business accounts have unlimited version history by default. On Android devices, and on desktops where the Dropbox Professional service is in use, the Dropbox app only holds active files locally, reducing the need for storage space.
- OneDrive from Microsoft provides cloud backup and synchronisation. Plans range from 5GB free plans to 1TB per user with Office 365 plans. Clients are available for Android and other platforms, Web access is also supported.
- rsync.net, rsync over ssh online backup services, and blog.kozubik.com technical information.
- SpiderOak zero-knowledge cloud storage with a wide range of supported clients, including Android and GNU/Linux.
- Email, collaboration and messaging
- Etherpad is an open-source, customisable, online editor enabling users to users to make, edit and collaborate in real-time on documents. Software Freedom Conservancy operates a public Etherpad instance. Other sites running public instances of Etherpad lite are available.
- FastMail.com Australian mail handler with paid accounts for individuals, families and businesses. . Using this Fastmail referral link will save 10% of the first year’s subscription.
- Gmail via mutt is explained by Victor Parmar.
- MailChimp bulk mail services.
- Posteo.de green, secure mail service.
- Protonmail.ch secure mail service, headquartered in Switzerland. Android app available, as are own domains, multiple users and an associated VPN service.
- SendPulse bulk and transactional mail service.
- Slack messaging for teams.
- Social Insider tracks Facebook and Instagram traffic profiles.
- Tutanota secure email service, based in Germany. Android and Apple apps available. Encryption is done client-side.
- Virustotal provides online analysis of a file or URL. A helpful last line of defence against malware.
- Yahoo UK
- Zoho.eu mail paid and free email and apps hosted on servers in the EU.
Other
- dmClub inbound call handling including voice and fax to email.
- Draytek UK broadband CPE that supports IPv6. Their CEO, Michael Spalter, has written an introductory book on IPv6 and gave a talk on IPv6 to the BCS Internet SG on .
- freenode IRC network.
- LastPass, zero-knowledge password management.
- Morpheus Data’s list of over 400 free DevOps resources. Some have usage limitations or are restricted to business users but still an interesting list.
- Nitrokey make two-factor authentication hardware and most products are open-source.
- Pushover provides an API to send notifications to Android and some other devices. Generous free tier available for sent messages; about $5 per platform for receiving devices. Colin Shea has an example on his blog of creating alerts for system shutdown and boot.
- SE Ranking SEO monitoring for web sites over multiple search engines.
- UpTimeRobot provides up to 50 instances of monitors for internet services at no less than 5-minute intervals with alerting and a day’s logs for free. Paid plans can have more monitors, SMS notification and shorter intervals between probes.
- VoiceBase voice to text transcription by machine. API and VoiceBase Web app access.
- WireframeApp.io collaborative wire-framing. Operated by appcepted.io who also provide the icon CDN service iconapp.io.
- Yubico two-factor authentication hardware. A report was presented at Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2016 on results of a two-year study at Google into the benefits of moving to FIDO U2F with Yubico hardware from other 2FA mechanisms. The report was summarised by John Fontana in a Yubico blog posting.