Achieve a private, ad-free, subscription-free existence for beginners. Once you host everything yourself,you’ll never go back. This is a tutorial series to go from typically over subscribed life to a cloud-hosted, reliable, secure service you own. The end result is a powerful server that gives you and up to hundreds, access to email, files, media, […]
Add Storage to a Linux Server
Perhaps you have purchased physical disks for a server, they will need to be added to the system, configured and set to be available after a reboot. Regardless of whether its Hard Drive or M2, etc. storage in Linux is seen as a block device with some kind of a UUID. This address method is […]
Send Alerts from the Command Line to Discord
In the previous post, you set a static IP address on an Ubuntu server. Now that the server connects to the Internet, its a good idea to have it report on its status or specific events. A good way to do this is using Discord, as its a free service for small use cases, and […]
Build a Network Backup Service on Linux
In its simplest form, a backup is the safe guarding of data by keeping it redundant or copied out, in an ordered way. This is a small script that demonstrates a simple repetitive routine using crontab to backup all the computers and shares; Windows and Linux based. The important files will be copied to a […]