After finishing up my newest small factor and low power consumption NAS Server, because both my NUC and my NAS were now booting off a ZFS mirror SSD stripe, I had to go through extra hoops in order to activate IOMMU for PCI pass-through in Proxmox VMs. It really isn’t that hard and I’ll write…
Category: Tutorials
Comprehensive Guide: Backing up Your Raspberry Pi Image and Data
The Raspberry Pi is a versatile and powerful single-board computer used for a wide range of projects. Whether you’re running a web server, a media centre, or a home automation system, it’s crucial to regularly back up your data and system image to safeguard against unforeseen events. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the…
Cleaning up your Linux OS.
Now if you’re like me, you’re bound to have a ton of VMs running with different Linux flavors and settings, but after some time, it tends to get cluttered and unnecessary data takes up all your allocated space for said Linux VM. I will show you a few easy tricks to help you clean up…
More security – Adding Key Pairs for my VM instances.
I decided to make my life easier and jumped on to using key pairs in order to access my Servers and VM Instances. So I’ll add it here as well, for anyone that needs to do it and for future me 🙂 Managing Key Pairs on Linux Instances Instances launched using CentOS, Debian, AlmaLinux or…
Getting permission – “I am ROOT!”
If you’re getting a “permission denied” error when trying to edit or upload files through WinSCP or FileZilla in the /var/www/html directory on your Linux web server, it indicates that the user you’re logged in as does not have the necessary permissions to modify those files. Here are a few steps you can take to…
Installing PHP 5.6 (because of reasons…)
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…
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…