Now, if you’re in the same boat as me, and have an old website database that’s been offline for more than 10 years, you will probably run into all sorts of issues recovering the data and re-establishing your website. 15 years ago I created a website for an online community, with a forum and all…
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Guacamole! No, not the dip…
If you’ve been looking for a way to access your VM instances in a safe and secure manner, look no further! I found it 😀 Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway that provides secure access to your desktop and servers from anywhere. With Guacamole, you can access all your virtual machines from a web…
Replacing failed disks and repairing a degraded pool.
Well, it was bound to happen, folks! One of my drives died! After building a storage server, I installed TrueNAS Scale, which was virtualized on Proxmox and I proceeded to build a large drive pool, made out of 20 HDDs. At the time, I was unaware that two Vdevs would be better for this type…
Mounting a NAS (Network Attached Storage) device on Linux
To use your NAS and make it accessible over your entire network, you will have to configure it properly so it can be added and mounted in various systems around your home network. We’re not going to talk about NAS configurations but we are going to go through how to mount your NAS to a…
Debian: Installing Nvidia Drivers
Now, if you’re like me, and you embarked on a self-hosting journey where you’d want to deploy and host everything in your own environment, then you’ve/you’ll probably have this issue – NVIDIA DRIVERS. Oh gosh! I’ve been through countless forum posts and tutorials and nothing worked properly… Now to give you a little insight on…
Simple measures for better network security v2 – VLANs, VPN & Password Manager.
As I promised in my last post about network security, I am now back with a follow-up blog post about more steps you could take in securing your home network. You can check my last post on this subject @ https://mariusserbanica.co.uk/2023/02/03/simple-measures-for-better-network-security-ssh/ In today’s connected world, having a secure home network is essential to keep your…
Deploying and Self-hosting my own Cloud Service
Today I wanted to share with you my experience setting up my own cloud server using Nextcloud, as an alternative to Google Drive and OneDrive. As someone who values privacy and control over my data, I decided to take matters into my own hands and create my own cloud storage solution. Since I already own…
Retro Gaming on a Raspberry PI 2
Howdy hardware enthusiasts! I’m excited to share with you my latest project: transforming a Raspberry Pi into a retro gaming console using RetroPie as the emulating operating system. The last time I wrote about a Raspberry was when I converted a Raspberry PI 1 into a local DNS Server and Self Hosted AdBlocker via Pi-Hole…
Simple measures for better network security – SSH
Since I’ve been planning on securing my SSH connections I figured I should post here as well, showing you all how you could improve your network security by simply doing the next things I’m going to list down below. I do have a fair amount of boxes and VMs running on my home lab, so…
Using a Raspberry PI as a Local DNS server & an Ad-Blocker
Raspberry Pi 1 is a small and affordable computer that can be used for a variety of projects. In this blog post, we will be discussing how we used a Raspberry Pi 1 with Pi OS to install and configure Pi-hole as a local DNS server and an ad blocker. The first step in this…