Unsurprisingly to other techies my server rack has changed over the past year and few months. Warning, nerd territory ahead.
All in The Network
Unsurprisingly to other techies my server rack has changed over the past year and few months. Warning, nerd territory ahead.
Upgrading the operating system of a server can be easy, and it can be painful. I upgraded four of them, and as only three had issues, I consider myself lucky. Nonetheless, this wasn't easy.
I closed a security hole on my mail server. Granted, one could barely see the hole, and the chances of compromise are quite low, but everything counts. Right? Right?
There are a lot of decent tutorials online about Wireguard setup. I’m not claiming this is one of them, but this is about a real world implementation.
Not everyone self hosts, but I do. I get asked a lot as to why, so I’ll try and answer. Spoiler, I’m paranoid and a nerd.
Running Pi-hole in recursive mode has a lot of benefits - especially if you run your own mail server.
To save on server room space as well as power consumption, I migrated three tower systems to Intel NUCs and rack mounted them. Here’s why.
It went perfectly smooth, until it didn’t. Full instructions on migrating a Mastodon instance to new hardware, including a few of my mistakes so you can learn from them.
Hosting your own Mastodon instance isn’t for everyone, but if you decide to do it, it’s probably easier than you think.
To properly run a mail server, you need your DNS in order. This is my over-the-top method to do just that.
There are reasons I run my own mail server, they may seem paranoid but they are not. Well. not too paranoid...