When you look at the nice codeblocks we have in our docker blogs, you must have noticed that we blanked certain information like username, password, domain, for obvious reasons. As explained in another post, the internet is not a safe place. Also we sometimes used the “.env” file for certain parameters. Another thing we played…
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Now you know we are big Apple fans, so it should come as no surprise that we have an Apple TV (actually several . . .) So it stands to reason that we need to make our media files available on the network. Now there are probably more ways to do this, but as the…
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As promised, the followup on the Synology versus our server solution. So we knew that the Synology liked to use rsync, so logically we searched for a docker to do just that, and found this one. It does the job, and the server is recognized by the Synology, and is happily making backups ever since.…
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Another little gem in all its simplicity is Ubooquity. If you have books and comics, and you would like to be able to read them on-line, this is the best one we found. Hits: 1
Did you ever feel annoyed about all the advertising you get? We did!But hey, if you have your own server anyway, why not use it a little more?First we cam across Pi-Hole, but somehow it did not click with us. Not that we think its bad, but you sometimes have that nagging feeling. So we…
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Today we have started to use our new logo. It was time for a little refresh . . .We used this site : https://www.brandcrowd.com Of course it is not protected in any way, since this is crazy expensive, or at least not worth it for our site. We got it from good authority that when…
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You will never win from all the main-stream applications that are out there like WhatsApp, Signall etc, but how cool is it to be in full control of the data by hosting your own chat server.Below the YML as we used it. Remember to remove the marked mongo db section that is intended to create…
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From one day to the other our HTTPS stopped working, and no clue what’s wrong. Dailed back the security on our Unifi Dream Machine, re-installed NGINX and LetsEncrypt, but it all failed to fix the problem. In the end the solution turned out te be to restore the factory settings on the Dream Machine and…
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