SysAdmin Experiments with apcupsd in Debian/Proxmox: Answers to Questions You Didn't Know You Had While setting up an apcupsd client on Proxmox, a bunch of questions crossed my mind about the behavior of the apcupsd daemon. I did the experiments to get answers so you don't have to. I hope you find the below apcupsd Q&A helpful. Hopefully it will help you design a better homelab network.
unRAID Deploying an unRAID NFS Server A brief guide on when and how to set up an NFS server on unRAID. Includes more advanced configuration on how to deploy an unRAID NFS server behind a firewall with static ports.
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.
Servers LVM, Thin Provisioning, and Monitoring Storage Use: A Case Study If you're not monitoring your server's storage use, it can quickly run away from you. Today's guide shows you how to keep an eye on things with an introduction to LVM thin provisions and monitoring disk use with Diskover, lvs, and Grafana utilities.
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.
Programming Connecting VS Code with a Remote Development Server Previously, we discussed how to set up a remote development server that will allow you to work from wherever on whatever hardware (and OS) you choose. In today's guide, we will continue that work with how to set up remote SSH with Visual Studio Code.
Programming Develop from Anywhere: How to Set Up a Remote Development Server Work from anywhere and develop remotely on any desktop. A beginner's guide for how to set up a remote development server.
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.
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
Servers Setup an NGINX Reverse Proxy on a Raspberry Pi (or any other Debian OS) If you’re running a web server out of your homelab (and you should), you really should consider running your servers behind an NGINX reverse proxy. Honestly, this should be
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
