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My first NAS was a single bay Terramaster box, bought from Amazon about 2011. My thoughts were not on security or back-ups, I simply wanted somewhere remote to store all my media. It was hooked up to my Asus O!Player and I could connect to it remotely from th...

Moving away from my Synology Apps, my first step was to decide how to set up my minipc. I wanted my own home server. Youtube was my first step. Let's see how everyone else does it. For my first introduction to the HomeLab eco-system, I decided on Proxmox, Ub...

With Ubuntu, there seem to be a lot of people that stick with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS server edition and few videos praising the newer Ubuntu 24.04 LTS server edition. I didn't see any real reason to use the older 22.04, so I went for the 24.04. The two video guides...

This is basically how I started up my home server. When the Portainer GUI was up and ready, I really wanted to have more hours in the day to learn as much as I could and mess around with it. ........and now the journey continues. Edit - 5th May, 2025   I ...

Nearly all my self-hosted apps are Docker apps. Most of them have been installed with Docker Compose which I find is much easier to migrate from one storage place to another. I have installed and tried all of them, but do not necessarily use them now. The cu...

As per their site, "Joplin is an open source note-taking app. Capture your thoughts and securely access them from any device". Joplin app website Looking at the site, I see they have their own Joplin cloud service. That service has 'Basic', 'Pro' and 'Teams'...

This installation was first done by diving into SSH from a terminal to my minipc and uploading a Docker Compose. This installation uses a database and in this case a postgresql database is used. You may have to allow certain permissions for the joplin folder ...