This guide covers building a software RAID1 mirror with LVM on Ubuntu using two 10TB drives. The combination of mdadm for mirroring and LVM for volume management provides redundancy against single drive failure while maintaining the flexibility to resize, snapshot, or extend storage without repartitioning. Overview The storage stack consists of mdadm software RAID1 at […]
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Enable GPU on Server Hardware for Media Services
Some datacenter and server farms disable GPUs in their servers by default. The hardware is present and functional, but the devices are hidden at the BIOS or firmware level to simplify inventory management and reduce support complexity. Hetzner does not officially support GPU passthrough or direct GPU use on auction servers, but the hardware can […]
Hetzner Bare Metal Setup: Custom RAID and Firewall Configuration
Hetzner dedicated servers require manual provisioning to achieve production-ready storage layouts and network security. The default automated installation does not support custom partition schemes or proper Docker firewall integration. This guide covers booting into rescue mode, deploying Ubuntu with multiple MD RAID arrays, and configuring both UFW and the Hetzner hardware firewall. Prerequisites The following […]
Hetzner StorageBox with Encryption at Rest
A server running, for example, Nextcloud and Immich on a single unencrypted locally mounted drive presents two problems: no redundancy and no encryption. Moving bulk storage to Hetzner StorageBox addresses both issues. This post examines how to do this and the technical tradeoffs of that migration. Starting Configuration The existing example server runs Ubuntu 24.04 […]
Buying and Setting Up a Hetzner Auction Server
This post documents the process of purchasing a used dedicated server from Hetzner Server Auction and configuring it as a hardened Ubuntu 26.04 system with RAID1 NVMe storage. The target hardware is an Intel i7-7700 with 1TB NVMe drives in software RAID configuration. Finding and Purchasing the Server Hetzner provides two tools for locating dedicated […]