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Building and running your own server isn't as hard as it sounds!
This series on my homelab setup aims to provide an introductory guide for those with zero sysadmin experience.
Hi there! Hope you're doing well :) I've spent the last few months documenting my experiences with running a server at home. I hope that I've been able to help others get started with doing the same, or at least put some inspiration out for exploring...
Introduction You should always keep backups of your important data in the case of catastrophic hardware loss or corruption! Think about this like a good insurance plan: when accidents inevitably happen, you want to be able to recover what you lost wi...
What is a NAS and why should I care? Whether it be photos, videos, music, or important documents, you most likely have a bunch of files scattered around your computer. Maybe you have an external hard drive if you ran out of space, and maybe you also ...
Introduction At this point in the series, you should have a fully functioning set of services available at your command and some knowledge on how to extend this framework to host whatever you want! That's pretty much all you need for the most basic h...
Introduction It's taken a little while, but we're finally ready to host our first service in a VM! This section is very choose-your-own-adventure: I'll give an example of how to set up a service I run (Portainer), as well as the general framework I u...
Before we can properly offer services on our VMs, we'll need to make sure they are accessible over the Internet! However, simply exposing the entire server to the Internet (via portforwarding or otherwise) is extremely dangerous, since it allows anyo...
