When you maintain a site like this, you are bound to change the way you do things. And in our case we have not a consistent way of showing the docker-compose files, especially when you make use of .env files. So we are going to look into this to make it more clean and readable…
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Some time ago we had a little mishap we want you to tell about. As time goes by, you are bound to break your own rules in your unbridled enthusiasm to make things better, or try stuff out. At some point I found it nice to use a hostname instead of the IP address of…
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If you read about this, hear about it, and it becomes an item in the workplace, I admit, we got a little worried about our network. As big fans of ubiquity equipment, we have a dream machine to help us stay as safe as possible from the big bad internet. If you look in the…
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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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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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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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And what a day it was, and how stupid can you be . . . We were on holiday and wanted to see some of the stuff we had on our nice server. So we decided to open up a few ports to make this possible (big mistake), and then decided to leave them open…
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One of the things we learned the hard way is that you need to use persistent volumes when you deploy your applications. The benefit of it is that you have control over where these volumes are stored. On our server have a separate physical volume where we store these volumes, thus keeping things organized. You…
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Apart from the struggles described in the last post, which were interesting to say the least, there are also the pictures of what the server looks like and what makes it tick. First the case. This is from Fractal. I used to be a cooler master fan, and they are still good case, don’t get…
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