Ensuring the security and reliability of an online presence is critical in today’s digital landscape. For my website infrastructure, I have implemented a robust approach that combines Cloudflare for domain security and DNS management, WordPress for content management, and Microsoft 365 for email hosting. Additionally, I have enforced strict access controls through Intune and Conditional…

As part of my ongoing efforts to explore and implement self-hosted AI solutions, I recently deployed DeepSeek’s latest AI model, R1, on a virtualized environment within my infrastructure. This process involved several key steps, from provisioning hardware resources to configuring the AI host and testing its performance. Setting Up the Virtual Machine To begin, I…