
Back to basics networking!
It is 2026 and I have gone back to a basic wired gigabit network at home and the results have surprised me. I am having a much better time after ditching a mixed wi-fi and… Back to basics networking!

It is 2026 and I have gone back to a basic wired gigabit network at home and the results have surprised me. I am having a much better time after ditching a mixed wi-fi and… Back to basics networking!

RelayEasy is an easy to use SMTP relay, email and hosting service.

If you are still using your ISP providers DNS this is something you really must change moving into 2026. ISPs have pretty awful DNS servers, they are often slow meaning pretty much everything you do… Better DNS? A must do in 2025 and onwards…

I have seen a lot of 500 errors from Cloudflare sites this morning, although it now appears to be getting back to normal…. As has become evident Cloudflare has had issues pretty much all day… Cloudflare issues this morning?

We have added another free service to RelayEasy – ConvertX is an online file converter that handles over 1000 formats, now it does require registration and login, but that is just to provide extra functionality.… ConvertX added

I have added an instance of omnitools to the portfolio of free services we offer here at RelayEasy! https://omnitools.relayeasy.com Here is an example of the background removal tool – pretty good eh?

Just a reminder that here at RelayEasy we have some redundancy and backups in place and we don’t rely on AWS so todays outage hasn’t caused us any issues. Whilst AWS can, and does work… AWS down today!

One of my clients has recently started a website and I found it rather interesting! This shows what YOU can do if you use us to host a website and other services…. https://liber8.xyz

Here at RelayEasy we like to help self-hosting prosper and think it is a great way for users to take control of their data. immich is such an example of that and yesterday V2.0 which… Immich now stable – 2.0 released!

The RelayEasy search I have setup as a free service has been constantly updated and now works really well. It is based on SearXNG You can use it as and old fashioned search engine/page or… RelayEasy search updated…

I have had a few discussions recently about people using 2FA and email (ie sent a 2FA code via email to login) and they have still been hacked/compromised due to the inherent lack of security… 2FA via email – insecure due to email!