Migrating to Pure Blog
It's been five years now since I wrote my first blog post. Crazy how time flies, isn't it? I remember that I was new on Fosstodon and everyone seemed to have a blog so I started developing acute FOMO/...
Tag: self-hosting
Moving to Infrastructure as Code — A Work in Progress
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...
Server Infra Update
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...
The latest in VPN land
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...
Next Round of Homelab Updates
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...
State of my Homelab in August 2025
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...
My New Server Setup
A while ago someone (not pointing fingers but it wasn't me) broke the Raspberry Pi my Jellyfin server was running on. I have no idea what exactly happened and why it doesn't work anymore but it was in...
How To: Create a Digital Frame with MagicMirror
I've wanted a digital frame at home for a while now. I'm notoriously bad at organizing pictures, even worse at sorting, printing, arranging or displaying them. So when I found out that digital frames...
Self-Hosting or How I learned to stop worrying and love the Cloud
For a few years now, I've hosted a small server at home. Nothing too exciting, I'd say. It all started with a Nextclound instance (see here) and sort of evolved from there. After a while I discovered...
How To: Set up NextcloudPi with Docker
I've been successfully running a Nextcloud instance for a while now and it's quite useful. When I did the setup the first time I installed the entire stack on bare metal by hand. Raspberry Pi with Ras...