As alluded to before, the number of servers I manage recently outgrew my ability or rather willingness to maintain all of them manually so, naturally, the desire to introduce automation arose. I've wo...
I have been self-hosting for a while but mostly I have used one machine to put everything on. This makes maintenance straightforward as there's not a lot to do to install updates and the like. Recentl...
In a previous blog post I wrote about my current VPN setup and whether it might not be time to switch. I considered several options and tried almost all of them to get a feel for them. wg-easy This pr...
Monitoring Cleanup Has it been a week already? Time never stands still, does it? Anyhoo, I ended my last post being unsure about how exactly to do monitoring. Who watches the Watchmen? I decided to go...
What's Up? I have been self-hosting stuff for years now. It started with Nextcloud once upon a time but by now there are a whole bunch of really useful services that run on my personal server. Said se...
It's been a while since I've last written about the stuff I self-host. Once upon a time I was simple-minded enough to believe that I would get some hardware, install some software that seems useful to...
Printers are devices straight from hell. Just stating a fact. Despite this unfortunate fact I can't live without one. Digitization is woefully behind in the country I live in so there's no way around...
Perhaps you've been in this situation before. You have a home server which hosts an bunch of stuff. Possibly in VMs, containers, what have you. You want a way to address these servers from elsewhere s...
Have you ever had the problem that you want to run a script but because it handles relative paths it depends on the directory it's called from? Well, today I learned about a shell function that helps...
A while ago I became aware of Nix, NixOS and people who actually use it. I was intrigued by the proposition: configure your whole system declaratively so you can avoid configuration drift and combat i...