Posts categorized as server

I recently decided to upgrade my old Asus router to something more modern and fun. Since going the self-hosted and open-source path recently, the choice was easy. A small, dedicated hardware running OPNsense. One of the most important…

Previous versions of Ubuntu Server used a file under /etc/network to configure static IP addresses, but this has been changed in later versions of Ubuntu. When installing Ubuntu Server, a tool called NetPlan will probably configure your…

Naming stuff is difficult, especially in the digital world. It's one of the things that you want to get right the first time. So it is scalable and descriptive without having to redo it after a year when you buy a new NAS or move to another…

The Raspberry Pi is a great little computer you can use for many different things. Unless you need a lot of processing power it’s good enough to run as a small home server. I’ve decided to use mine for some network related stuff since the…

The operating system of a Synology NAS, DiskStation Manager , is a great web-based GUI making it easy for everyone to manage their NAS. However, sometimes it's preferable to access the NAS through SSH instead of the GUI. Logging in with…

Drone is a great open source CI/CD running in a docker container that is both easy to use and install. Because it runs in a container and doesn’t require a lot of dependencies installed on your system it’s really easy to update to a new…

Drone CI is an open source continues integration and delivery platform built on container technlogoy. It is a lightweight and easy to use solution for testing and deploying your projects. Drone is distributed and run in a Docker container…

HTTP/2 has only been out a for a few years but it is certainly time to activate it on your sites now. Compared to the old HTTP 1.1 there are many pros. Requests are downloaded parallel instead of in a queue, greatly improving speed and…

Browsing the web unencrypted with only HTTP is not recommended anymore and Google recently started to mark all sites without SSL as “not secure” in their browser Chrome. Adding a certificate to your site used to cost money and often meant a…

If you’ve been working with web servers for a while you’ve probably heard about Apache. It was pretty much the default solution when setting up a new site on a self hosted server a while back. The classic LAMP stack , an acronym for Linux…