Monthly Archives: April 2024

Setting up your own Domain

Posted on 2024-04-24 by Michael Schneider

To be able to reach your home server from the Internet, you will first need your own domain name for it. I will show the setup using my own setup with dynv6 and Ionos, but it can be achieved similarly … Continue reading →

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Get Idle Hard Drives to Sleep

Posted on 2024-04-19 by Michael Schneider

At this point, I would like to digress to a topic that was really annoying and took me a bit to resolve. It’s how to spin down hard drives when they are idle. As mentioned earlier, I bought a 5TB … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu Installation

Posted on 2024-04-18 by Michael Schneider

Since www.libe.net has a very good installation guide here (I linked to their screenshots in the steps below) and even a video there, I will just quickly walk through the steps that I followed and that I consider important. Basically, … Continue reading →

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