Homelab

Linux

How To Set Up a WireGuard VPN Server on Ubuntu Linux

With WireGuard now officially supported by Ubuntu and integrated into the Linux kernel, I’ve decided it’s high time to for dedicated guide on how to set up a WireGuard VPN server on Ubuntu.

Raspberry Pi

How to Set Up WireGuard on a Raspberry Pi

WireGuard is rapidly becoming the go-to VPN, with even Linus Torvalds himself praising it. In fact, Torvalds is such a fan, he has merged it directly into the Linux kernel. But why is WireGuard receiving so much praise and should you use it? Keep reading to find out.

Servers

How to Monitor Disk Usage and Growth with Diskover

Monitoring server storage should be part of every data center monitoring procedure. Learn how to monitor and analyze server storage use and growth with Diskover.

Networking

Securing Your Network: Configuring ACLs on an HP 1910 Managed Switch "The Easy Way"

Secure your network by learning how to set up access control lists (ACLs) on the HP 1910 (Comware) managed switch.

Virtualization

Expand Your Proxmox Storage: A Guide to Adding CIFS (SMB) Storage to Proxmox

Free up valuable local storage on your Proxmox server while simultaneously adding to your virtualization server's storage capacity. In this guide, we'll learn how to add CIFS storage (SMB/Samba shares) to Proxmox.

Linux

How to Set Up a WireGuard Client on Linux with .conf File

How to quickly set up WireGuard on a Linux client with wg-quick and a .conf configuration file.

Linux

How To Install a VNC Server On Raspberry Pi for Remote Desktop

A rapid-start guide to setting up a VNC server on an RPi for remote desktop, allowing you to quickly obtain a GUI into your homelab.

Networking

Raspberry Pi VLANs: How To Connect Your RPi To Multiple Networks

A guide for setting up VLANs on a Raspberry Pi. Use a single ethernet cable to connect your RPi to multiple networks at once! This can be used to allow your RPi to WOL devices across different subnets.

unRAID

How To Set Up WireGuard on unRAID

A quick-start guide for setting up WireGuard on Unraid. Benefits of WireGuard include easy deployment, lower latency, and improved battery life.

Servers

Remote Start for Servers: How To Set Up Wake-on-LAN (WOL)

Start your unattended server wherever you are in the world over the internet. A complete tutorial on wake-on-LAN (WOL) with a reverse SSH tunnel using nothing more than a Raspberry Pi.

Homelab

The Homelab Lifeline: The Easiest Guide to Creating a Reverse SSH Tunnel

The easiest, quick step-by-step guide for accessing your homelab network remotely via a reverse SSH tunnel on a Raspberry Pi (or any other Debian/Ubuntu device).

Servers

Connecting Your Raspberry Pi Web Server To The Internet: A Beginner's Guide to Port Forwarding and Dynamic DNS

A tutorial on connecting a Raspberry Pi/Ubuntu web server to the internet. Includes how to set up ddclient for dynamic DNS and how to configure port forwarding on a router/pfSense.

Virtualization

Configuring VLANs on Proxmox- An Introductory Guide

An introductory guide to VLAN configuration on a Proxmox virtualization server so that you can group related VMs onto their own subnet.

Ghost

Beginner's Guide to Updating Your Ghost Blog

A step-by-step guide to upgrading the Ghost publishing platform to the latest version. Also includes references on how to back up your Ghost content.

Ghost

Backup Your Ghost Content to unRAID

Mount an unRAID share locally on an Ubuntu server. This article covers how to mount a directory on your Ghost server to backup Ghost content on your unRAID server. I'll then show you how to backup Ghost's content directly to this unRAID share.

Linux

How to Install HandBrake on Ubuntu

How to install HandBrake on Ubuntu, resolve the dreaded "unable to locate package handbrake-gtk" and missing "libx264-152" errors, and update Ubuntu repository distributions.

Virtualization

How to Add a Hard Disk to an ESXi Virtual Machine

How to add an additional hard disk to an ESXi virtual machine (VM) via the web client and command line (esxcli/vmkfstools) without vSphere.

Networking

How To Set Up VLANs On An L3 Managed Switch (HP 1910) With pfSense

Tutorial on creating VLANs from scratch and routing them on an L3 Switch with pfSense integration.

Servers

Preparing Your Server for Vacation - The Unattended Server Access Checklist

Preparing Your Server for Vacation – The Unattended Server Access Checklist. 1) Check VPN Connection: 2) Check Reverse SSH Tunnel Backup: 3) VNC Server Available on Backup Devices: 4) Test Automatic Server Shutdown When Running on UPS: 5) Test Server WOL from Backup Device

Docker

A Short Introduction to Troubleshooting Docker Networks

I recently just built an unRAID rig which has now been deployed to my DMZ. It’s great, but something I have been struggling with is that periodically my FileZilla

Linux

How to Share Part of Your Plex Libraries without Giving Users Complete Access to Your Full Library: Symbolic Links with Plex and Docker Containers

By now you've discovered some of the many shortcomings of Plex. One of which is that you can't share individual videos with your friends or family- you have to give them access to the entire library! It's even worse if you have kids and

Self-Hosting

Troubleshooting Slow Response Times

After creating this WordPress site and finally getting it hooked up to the NGINX reverse proxy, I was left with a horrible website load time (something on the order of 10-12 s). In this post, I will show you a beginning guide to troubleshooting

Homelab

Getting Off the Ground

Recently, I decided I wanted to take better notes on my own learning and hopefully help others in the process. Enter this blog. I’ve been doing development for a while; I even have my own homelab running everything from Raspberry Pi to 24-thread