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Self-hosting Your Notes with Joplin
Self-hosting your note-taking applications offers both control and economy. Today we look at Joplin as an alternative to Trilium Next and compares features between the two most popular self-hosted note-taking apps.
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Pterodactyl: A Guide to Game Server Hosting
If you’ve ever tried setting up a game server for Minecraft, Rust, or Valheim, you know it can be confusing – especially when managing multiple servers or giving access to friends. That’s where Pterodactyl comes in.
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Build Your Homelab: 34 – Access Local Network Devices via Tailscale
The last part of our Headscale installation – getting exit nodes set up and routes activated to be able to access network resources
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Build Your Homelab: 33 – Connect To Headscale From Android
We have a Headscale aup and running and configurated, so now we can connect to Headscale from a different device, let’s get our Android phone connected.
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Build Your Homelab: 32 – Configuring Headscale
Once Headscale is installed, there is quite a bit of intricate setup and config to complete before we will be able to connect to our VPN. Let’s get it sorted and set up so we can start using our VPN.
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Build Your Homelab: 31 – Host Your Own Tailscale VPN In Proxmox With Headscale
Now that we know we can access our locally hosted services from outside our home network with the help of a VPN, let’s get our own local VPN installed and set up via Headscale
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Introducing the Radxa Dual 2.5G Router HAT
Ever thought that 1Gbps connectivity for your Raspberry Pi is not enough? What happens when 2.5Gbps is no longer enough? And what if it costs you your NVMe connectivity? Enter dual 2.5Gbps with and NVMe slot.
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Build Your Homelab: 30 – Custom Domain Usage and Setup
Having a domain name for our homelab will enable us to give a unique subdomain address for each of our services that we want to expose to the world wide web. We can also secure this with SSL certificates.
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Give Your Homelab a Name: How to Purchase a Domain Name
To access more than one service at a time on our homelab, we will need to start thinking about our very own domain name for easier access to our homelab services.
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Build Your Homelab: 29 – Access Local-only services via VPN
We need to take a step back to explain how to access our local-only services via the secure channel provided by a VPN. This is quick, easy and one of the most secure ways to access our home network services.
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XCP-ng vs. Proxmox: A Homelab Showdown
Although most of our tutorials uses Proxmox to run your homelab, there is an equally awesome alternative to Proxmox called XCP-ng. Let’s take a quick look at this awesome tool.
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Homelabs: Tips For First Time Users That I Wish I Knew Sooner
A Homelab can be one of the most rewarding endeavours, however, if you are not careful, it can turn into a nightmare. Here are some tips from our homelab years.
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Introducing the Raspberry Pi 45W USB‑C Power Supply
The new Raspberry Pi 45W USB‑C Power Supply is now on sale, and it is set to redefine how enthusiasts and professionals alike power their projects.
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Build Your Homelab: 28 – Uptime Kuma Integration Into ntfy
Now that we have Uptime Kuma running in our Docker LXC Container, we can start monitoring our other services in our Homelab. We can also alert us if one of the services goes down, with the help of the ntfy instance we have running that can send notifications to our phone. Let’s get started with…
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Build Your Homelab: 27 – Uptime Kuma
Any respectable homelab has quite a few services running that we need to be notified of if they go down. This is where Uptime Kuma is our best friend, so let’s get in included in our Home Lab.
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Build Your Homelab: 26 – Adding SSL for ntfy
With ntfy secured with a username and password, we can still also secure the communication with and SSL certificate.
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Automate Your Home Lab with n8n
If you are following along with our Build your own homelab series, we have got quite a few services up and running, secured and adding value. Today we have a look at a fairly popular service that might not make into our Homelab, not because of lack of features, but more because we are going…
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Understanding Hardware RAID vs. Software RAID
We all know backups are important, but what happens when a hard drive fails in your backup station? Let’s look at Hardware vs Software RAID for protecting your data.
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Build Your Homelab: 25 – Securing ntfy
Seeing as our ntfy is open to all guest users to send and receive, we need to lock it down behind a username and password. Let’s get the default changed and some credentials set up.
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Build Your Homelab: 24 – ntfy From Outside Your Home Network
Now that we have our own ntfy server up and running that can send notifications to our phone, we probably need to get those notifications when we are not at home as well. Let’s get it set up from outside of our home network.
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Build Your Homelab: 23 – Notifications To Your Phone With ntfy
Let’s get a central server up and running where we can send out notifications to that can be delivered to our phone. We are going to use the awesome app called ntfy