Self-Hosting
When de-Googling, one of the biggest challenges in terms of services to replace is management of your digital photo library. Not only is it critical to back up a photo library in the event that something happens to your device, having a photo repository hosted in the cloud allows you
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Self-Hosting
OK, so you've got a Nextcloud server set up, ready to back up and store all of your files. Now what? There's a lot of reasons you'd want to sync files from your Android device to your Nextcloud server: backing up photos/screenshots, storing
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Guide
One struggle that self-hosted server owners will inevitably come across is how to manage backups in a semi-automated and easily maintainable way. The guide will show you how to use Cronicle and restic to create automated backups of the data on your self-hosted server in a remote location using Rclone.
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Guide
One of the biggest downsides (by far) with self-hosting content on a server is redundancy, or having multiple copies of your data located on multiple machines (preferably in separate physical locations). The guide will show you how to configure restic and Rclone with an external data store to create backups
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Guide
Being able to manage a server remotely is a great thing to strive for, as it allows you to check in or troubleshoot things from anywhere in case something goes wrong. Even though it certainly is possible to schedule and manage maintenance tasks (such as automated backups) using Linux'
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Guide
Cloudflared Tunnels are a great option for accessing services on a self-hosted home server remotely, but what about accessing the server directly? In this short guide, I'll show how to set up remote SSH on a self-hosted server running a Cloudflared Tunnel so that you can access its
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Self-Hosting
A Cloudflared Tunnel is a great option to reverse proxy traffic to a home server. Not only is it free and production-ready, it is also very easy to set up and configure. On top of this, it is the easiest option for setting up a publicly available website over a
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Self-Hosting
One of my biggest, longest-running personal projects is my personal home server. This is a project that I've used to replace closed-source, corporate-owned cloud services in my digital life (e.g. PhotoPrism has replaced Google Photos), and also to develop and host some brand new automation systems (such
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Self-Hosting
The modern internet is as centralized as ever, but awesome open source projects such as Mastodon, Nextcloud, and Jitsi are making it easier to become independent of today's internet service giants such as Google. A centralized web of content, where the few define which frames should be applied
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