AWS with pfSense Part 1: The Concept

Welcome to a new series of tutorials going in the direction of cloud architecture and specifically to AWS with pfSense. In this day and age, a lot of companies don’t want in-house hardware anymore, as the cost of providing a climatized server room and buying physical hardware can get quite high.

Here is where AWS, Amazon Web Services comes into play. You can set up a virtual server in no time and connect it to your internal network through a site to site VPN tunnel.

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Disable screensaver and screen blanking Raspberry Pi 3

If you want to use your Raspberry Pi 3 for monitoring purposes like I do, you probably want to disable screensaver and screen blanking on your Raspberry Pi 3.

I just bought my first Raspberry a few days ago and want to dive into it and see what it’s capable of. I want to utilize this one mostly for monitoring, to attach it to a screen and run a couple of dashboards that oversee my network.

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