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Category Archives: Home Server
MariaDB
Once Docker is running, let’s first start the database server, since this will be used by the other containers. First, we will need to add the database user name (typically root) and password to our secrets file: Add the following … Continue reading
Docker Installation
Now that we have the basics prepared, we can install Docker to run our applications. Installation Follow the steps described in the official installation guide. Use the latest version of Docker using the apt repository. Note:Since I eventually ran into … Continue reading
Extend Default Ubuntu LVM Partition
Another digression at this point, because this took me quite some time to figure out. After I installed Ubuntu as described earlier, everything seemed to work fine, until I realized that the main drive (mapped to ‘/’ in Ubuntu) was … Continue reading
Setting up your own Domain
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
Get Idle Hard Drives to Sleep
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
Ubuntu Installation
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
Hosting a Server at Home
I will now start a new series of posts on how I set up my server at home. It hosts several applications, is accessible from the web (but only via HTTPS), and solves some problems in a nice way for … Continue reading
