General infos

UPDATE 04.02: Updated Railway to Fly.io

UPDATE 31.01: Corrected email details

Hosting

The entire site is statically generated with hugo, being hosted to fly.io ~railway~ as a pocketbase app. This means that the entire project is static as well as it can be powered with the pocketbase api/database for restricted pages, subscription lists and forms.

Project files are stored to a

Automatic deploys are triggered upon changes to the repo.

DNS, CDN and file storage are provided by Bunny. This service provides fast delivery. Podcast audio files are stored to https://realmen-storage.b-cdn.net/media/

Licences and pay-as-you-go

Whenever possible, Opensource, no-Subscription (pay-as-you-go) and Europe-based hosting (good for privacy) was prefered.

Hugo and Pocketbase are opensource projects.

Fly.io is a paid service (pay-as-you-go, probably free for our usage)

Bunny is a paid service hosted in Europe (pay-as-you-go, probably few cents per month).

The domain realmen.it is registered with Gandi (Europe based).

Rss feed

The rss feed is published to:

being validated with success against:

At the moment the rss was manually submitted to:

Email

Email realmenit977@gmail.com is hosted by Gmail (not good for privacy but easy to setup for domains) with an official public email:

This is the address that we use, when someone writes to this address it will be automatically forwarded to gmail.

Catch-all addresses are setup with https://forwardemail.net, i.e., every email address @realmen.it is valid and automatically forwarded to our main email address.