Docker Setting up Ghost as a Static Site using GitHub and Cloudflare A quick and easy way to push your ghost blog as a static site to Cloudflare Pages using GitHub
Containers Featured Ente for your Photos: self-hosted, encrypted, unlimited (and on docker) Google Photos, Apple Photos; the original(s) and still arguably the best. High availability, fast speeds. They. Just. Work. For years, home-labbers have been trying to search out (and create when they have the skills and time) self-hosted services that could replace the big two, and finding out just how
Containers Comentario: your Blog or Website's Comment Companion Online communities are a big part of the internet, and a big part of community is the ability to comment and engage with content creators. Today we're going to install Comentario, a standalone commenting tool which can be embedded into any website. Scroll down to the bottom of
Containers Automatically Start and Stop your Containers with Lazytainer My NAS is beginning to hurt. Sure it's a few years old now, the disks only a little younger, but I can see that some processes take a little longer, some services run a little slower. My CPU idles at 60%, and no matter how much RAM I
Home Assistant Creating your own Interactive Smart Home Floor Plan: Part 5 We've created our images. We've set up our smart devices, sensors and integrations. Everything is ready to be pulled together into one, cohesive dashboard. It's worth noting at this time that I don't know how you've named, labelled, or otherwise
Containers Secure your server from known baddies using CrowdSec & Swag Although it doesn't have a fancy GUI, SWAG is my go-to reverse proxy. One of the things which drew me to it is it just works, and comes with fail2ban nicely integrated. I like fail2ban. It's pretty straightforward. I'd heard of CrowdSec, but found
Home Assistant Part 4 of Creating your Interactive Smart Home Floor Plan This episode is going to focus on integrating your smart equipment into HA and understanding how it is referenced/used. Make sure to follow along, because in the next episode we'll finally be able to put all this together and create our workable dashboard layout. While there are
Home Assistant Creating your Interactive Smart Home Floor Plan: Part 3 Today we'll focus on fine tuning our images before we get into Home Assistant itself. Thanks for coming on this journey so far, only a little bit left to go. At this stage you should have a good understanding of what we're trying to achieve (because
Home Assistant Creating your Interactive Smart Home Floor Plan: Part 2 Welcome to the second part of this series to create your own Interactive Smart Home FloorPlan. This episode of the guide will focus on creating your own floor plan in Sweet Home 3D, so if you've not already downloaded and opened it, go right ahead and do that,
Home Assistant Creating Your Interactive Smart Home Floor Plan: Part 1 First things first. This. Will. Consume you. I first came across Home Assistant (HA) 18 months ago (you can check out a post about that here which offers some tips for first steps setting it up) not long after buying my first NAS and discovering the joys of docker and
Docker Backup vs Sync explained: best practices for updating and protecting your Docker ecosystem If you've spent any time following the various guides on this (or any other similar) site, chances are you've got a number of containerized services up and running, including some pretty importatnt databases. Some of you may be happily living life, but others are starting to
Containers Collaborate on documents in real time - OnlyOffice for OwnCloud A while back I created a walkthrough to set up your own selfhosted OwnCloud instance for file storage and sharing. For those of you who have multiple users and need some real-time collaboration, I have the answer for you: This is a separate container which we will spin up and
Containers Automate your document workflows with MayanEDMS - installing without Traefik Document management for teams who need powerful workflow automation. Here's how to set up your own open-source DMS
Containers Docker + Habitica = Winning at Life Habitica is a tool designed to give you maximum enjoyment from doing those things that you, well, don't necessarily enjoy. It helps you set up goals which reward you in-game, and is playable with friends and family. I'm not going to go through the actual mechanics
Docker Moving the Docker package from one volume to another on Synology There's a lot of info out there about moving docker from one volume to another. Almost all of it unfortunately is for systems which differ from DSM, and although still Linux, do have some significant changes. The below will run through how to move the package across volumes,
Synology Boost your system speed by creating an SSD volume on a Synology 920+ using NVMe slots With the new x23 models being delivered, a lot of chat has started up again surrounding the NVMe slots on Synology Diskstations. Until now, the only official way to use these slots was as a read or read/write cache, not always something that was a) desired b) needed or
Containers Wearing your docker.sock on your sleeve? Use a proxy instead Certain containers need access to your docker socket, which allows them to view and have access to all docker containers and settings. Portainer is a great example of this. One way of allowing this is to map the following volume to the container: volumes: - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/
Containers Docker + Synapse + Element = your own, scalable selfhosted messaging service, and it works on your Synology NAS! For those of us looking to move away from centralized messaging services such as WhatsApp, hosting our own versions is attractive. Enter Synapse/Matrix, and a whole host of ready-made clients you can use, safe in the knowledge that your messages aren't going anywhere except between you and
Containers Setting up your automated media server with docker and usenet One of the main reasons home enthusiasts get a server is to use it to serve their media. Whether they use Plex, Emby, Jellyfin or any other player, the backend is generally the same: Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, a downloader, and possibly an indexer assistant like Jackett or Prowlarr. In this
General Featured Remote Status Monitoring for your Server A few months ago I wrote about how to set up a Google Cloud Platform instance onto which you could install a docker container called Uptime Kuma to monitor the status of services on your server. This is essentially the same but using a service called Fly.io, and while
Containers Updating Ghost from SQlite to MySQL8 - now with comments! Yes, Ghost now has commenting as a built in feature! Under the 'Membership' part of the settings page, self-hosters wishing to utilize this new comments feature need to set up a membership tier as it requires your website users to create an account and be logged in. This
Containers Selfhosting Ghost - the easiest way with v5.8.3 Ghost is the service I use to create this site. It is lightweight and pretty straightforward to use. It offers in-built membership, email and paywall tools (not that I specifically use any of them) but also offers powerful and free out-of-the-box themes to change up your look. If they aren&
General Accessing your services over HTTPS, inside your LAN and without IPs Got a load of self-hosted services and can't remember all their ports? Need to access that service with secure https rather than plain old http but don't want to make it public? Maybe you just want to be able to type myservice.mycooldomain.com instead of
General (Free) cloud-based service monitoring It's a clunky title I know, but it was the best I could do. What does it mean? Well... We all self-host services (99% of you wouldn't be reading this if you didn't, or if you weren't interested in beginning to self-host)
Containers Self-hosted Ghost tips and tricks Ghost is the platform this website is created on. Frankly, it's amazing. It works right out the box, and a little tinkering will get you a theme you're happy with. But sometimes we want different functionality in our pages, or we want to make the theme
