Last updated: 26 October 2026
TechnoBabu is a technology learning platform built for Indian users. The idea is simple: most tech tutorials on the internet are written for American readers with American budgets, American internet plans and American hardware availability. We write the guides we wished existed when we started — with real ₹ prices, real Indian ISP quirks, and hardware you can actually order here.
Who runs this site
My name is Anurag Sinha. I’m a technology enthusiast based in Patna, Bihar, India, who has spent years building websites, running home servers on everything from a Raspberry Pi to retired office desktops, configuring VPNs, and automating whatever can be automated. The guides are written from vendor documentation, standards and manuals, with every source linked at the foot of the article. Where a guide quotes prices, plans or software versions, an About the prices and versions note at the top says where the figures came from and that they are indicative. A Tested note is reserved for a hands-on test backed by retained, dated evidence; three guides carry one: network tests of VPN providers’ India locations and of hosting regions from Mumbai, and a short n8n install-and-start test. Guides without a dated note are documentation-led, and no guide claims a test that did not happen. In the current published inventory, 3 posts carry a Tested note, 16 carry a price/version note and 35 are documentation-led; that count is an editorial inventory, not an AI-authorship claim. TechnoBabu went live on 26 September 2026, and each guide’s publish date is the date it went live here.
There is no team, no content agency and no rotating cast of freelancers behind this. One person researches, writes and performs the editorial review, while a note at the top says where a post’s prices and versions came from. The contact address is the route for questions and corrections. That limits how fast the site grows, which is a trade we are happy with: careful, sourced guides beat a high-volume publishing schedule.
Why a site specifically for India
Because the details that decide whether a project works are exactly the details global tutorials leave out.
- Money is different. A “cheap $5 VPS” is a recurring foreign-currency charge with GST on top, on a card that may or may not clear. We quote ₹ figures, say when we checked them, and mention the payment friction where it exists.
- Networks are different. Carrier-grade NAT on consumer connections breaks the port-forwarding step that half the self-hosting internet assumes you can do. Guides here deal with that instead of pretending you have a public IPv4 address.
- Power is different. A home server that cannot survive a cut and an inverter is not a home server. Hardware recommendations account for that.
- Availability is different. Recommending a part you cannot get delivered here, or can only get at double the price, is not a recommendation. If something is hard to source in India, the article says so.
- Regulation is different. India’s rules on VPN providers and data retention have real consequences for what you should pick. We link the actual source and date what we say, rather than repeating what a foreign blog assumed.
What the guides are based on
Each guide starts from primary documentation: the project’s or vendor’s own docs, the relevant standard or RFC, the manual pages and release notes, and the regulator’s own notice for anything legal. Prices and plan details come from the provider’s or seller’s own listing and are dated in the note at the top of the guide, because they change often. Commands and configuration follow the documentation linked in the Sources section.
That matters for how you should read the numbers. A rupee figure is a snapshot from the date in the note, not a quote. A latency or speed range is a typical figure, not a measurement of your connection or a benchmark, so check it from your own line before you rely on it. If a figure has gone stale or is wrong, report it and the guide is corrected with a dated update note.
Why you can trust these guides
There’s a lot of copy-pasted tech content online that never says where its claims come from, and it wastes your time and sometimes breaks your hardware. TechnoBabu tries to do the opposite:
- Clearly sourced and labelled. Guides are written from primary documentation with every source linked, and a note says where prices and versions came from. A test note is added only when a hands-on test has retained, dated evidence behind it. We aim to explain the material in our own words, but the source list and the media provenance register—not an originality claim—are the basis for checking it. That register records the hand-drawn illustrations, logo, avatar and banner as original works created for this site, marks the hero illustrations that were generated with Google’s Gemini image model, and lists the fonts as SIL Open Font License releases.
- Honest about limits. When something is risky, fiddly, or known not to work, the article says so instead of papering over it.
- Kept current. When software changes or a reader reports an error, we update the guide and add a dated note. Our editorial policy spells out exactly how evidence labels, sourcing and corrections work.
- Independent. No vendor pays to be recommended or to remove criticism. If ads appear on this site, they are served through Google AdSense. Any advertising is kept separate from what we write.
- Checkable. Every guide ends with a Sources section linking the vendor documentation, standard or regulator notice behind its claims, so you can verify a statement instead of trusting a stranger on the internet.
What we cover
- Website building — domains, hosting, WordPress, and getting your first site online without overspending.
- Home labs — self-hosting on Raspberry Pi, old laptops and mini PCs, designed around Indian power and internet realities.
- VPNs and privacy — how the technology actually works, what Indian regulations mean for you, and building your own.
- Servers and hosting — VPS basics, Nginx, Linux server security, and choosing providers from India.
- Ad blockers — DNS-level filtering, browser extensions, and how blocking technology works under the hood.
- Automation — n8n, Home Assistant, PowerShell and scripts that do the boring work for you.
Each track is built to be read in order, from a genuine beginner’s first step through to setups most paid courses never reach. Start anywhere on the articles page, or pick a track and follow it through.
What we deliberately don’t do
- No affiliate links. Not one on the site. When we name a host or a VPN, nothing about that recommendation pays us.
- No sponsored posts. None so far, and if that ever changes the article will say “Sponsored” at the top before you read a word of it.
- No courses, no ebooks, no “premium” tier. The whole archive is free, permanently.
- No engagement bait. No listicles padded to hit a word count, no content written for a keyword rather than a reader, and no filler published to simulate depth.
How we plan to sustain the site
TechnoBabu is free to read and always will be. If ads appear on this site, they are served through Google AdSense. We do not sell courses, we do not paywall articles, and any sponsored content would be clearly labelled “Sponsored” before you read it. Advertising is kept separate from editorial decisions; see our editorial policy.
If advertising is enabled after the required owner-side account and policy checks, it would be placed by an advertising platform rather than sold directly by us. The theme contains no manually placed ad units: nothing is inserted mid-sentence, dressed up as a download button, or wedged into navigation to farm accidental clicks. If ads appear and get in the way of the writing, tell us.
Get in touch
Questions, corrections, or suggestions for guides you’d like to see? The contact page has support@technobabu.com. Corrections are part of the editorial process: when a report is received and verified, the article carries a dated update note.