Tag: servers
Setting Up A Plex Server With Hardware Transcoding on a Synology DS423+
For the sake of full disclosure, I started writing this guide with the intention of making a clearer version of the NASCompare setup guide, but over the course of a few days of work discovered that guide didn't work at all and ended up pretty much directly following the instructions from Dr. Frankenstein's guide, which is thorough and probably does a better job of covering all your bases than this will. I put enough effort into writing this that I figured I'd publish it anyway but if you get los
OPNsense Multi-WAN Tailscale
My goal with this project was to allow some devices on my local LAN to use a Tailscale exit-node as a gateway to exit out onto the internet. Basically, to enable some devices to route their traffic out via a Tailscale node, without having to install tailscale on those devices. The firewall should route the traffic down the Tailnet tunnel automatically without the target local devices being any the wiser. This post will walk through the steps required to get your OPNsense firewall to selectively send traffic out via a second gateway. The rest of the devices should continue to use your pre-existing gateway, while the selected devices should use a Tailscale exit-node as their gateway.
I Love LAMP
Giving some well-deserved appreciation to the LAMP stack, a key building block of the modern-day internet that you use daily. It’s everywhere. It may never die.
Docker + Localhost MySQL
I was having the hardest time getting applications in docker containers to connect to the instance of mysql runnning on the host without using host networking mode in docker. So I figured I'd share my solution here for others.
Standard Notes Selfhosted Installation
Standard Notes is an opensource web-based notes application.
Lynis - Linux Server Auditing
So you’ve got your system up and running the way you like it, but your wondering what else can I do to harden my server?
vsftpd Setup
So an FTP server is often one of the first things people want to setup on a new server. I recently setup two, one on my Raspberry Pi for making a 2TB USB Drive available in my home, and another somewhat more secure one on my VPS to transfer files back and forth. So anyway, lets just right in.
Tripwire
I stumbled upon this nice little program to keep an eye on your system files to make sure no one inappropriate is changing them! I like to have this run in cron once a week and send me a report. When your first changing your system / installing things, a lot of false positives will be tripped. But, once you settle into your system and are not constantly installing things and changing config files – this can be a handy service to have running to keep an key on your filesystem.
Could Lion Server herald a new breed of enterprise apps?
Together with today's Mac OS X Lion release, Apple also released a set of server extensions in the App Store for $49. To run Lion Server on your machine, you make sure you're running Lion (available from the App Store for $29), and then buy the server upgrade. Like all of their new offerings, this is for less-technical prosumers rather than professionals - so while the hardcore technical set will complain about lack of features (as they've done with Final Cut Pro X), consumers can run an easy-to