It's been almost 18 months since my original article in 2016 on the 'perfect' media server - this article...

I am delighted to announce a new 'special relationship' between LinuxServer.io and DigitalOcean.

Those wonderful people over at DO have agreed to sponsor LSIO. They're providing us a very generous amount of credit which we will use to host this site and much of our other build infrastructure. If...

This seems to generate a lot of questions and queries so thought I’d do a quick walkthrough.

Prerequisites

A working LetsEncrypt container, with your DNS pointing towards your server. You will need port 443 forwarded to your Unraid and a subdomain you are not using for anything else. (eg nextc...

We've done a couple of articles about Pfsense hardware recently. With the Snooper's Charter arrival in the UK and our American brethren about to have their browsing data sold to the highest bidder, it comes as no surprise that usage of VPN services is increasing to try and maintain a semblance of p...

Welcome to our review of the QNAP TS-251A, something new here at LSIO. We reached out to QNAP to request a review unit and they kindly provided one to support the development of our open-source docker containers. This initial review will cover the hardware, the QNAP software and some information abo...

This article will detail the steps required to passthrough your GPU to a guest VM which will in our case be a Windows 10 VM used for gaming. Yes, this is the exact same technology made popular by Linus on his LinusTechTips YouTube channel in the seven gamers, one CPU video. In this video Linus used...

Last week at Dockercon17 Docker unleashed Moby onto the world. This announcement divided opinion and, as expected from Docker Inc. these days, was pretty much a PR disaster. When your founder has to take to Twitter several days later with a hand drawn diagram you know you've screwed up.

T...

Introduction

I picked up one of the new Raspberry Pi Zero W boards from ModMyPI almost as soon as I heard about it. So for my first project, I decided to set up FreshRSS, an RSS reader that can be used with sqlite, on it.

You can see how small the board is when compared to a RPi2 in the im...

Piracy, it's everywhere: an unstoppable force that has aimed to subvert legitimate supply of entertainment since the dawn of motion pictures. Over the last few decades it has taken many forms: bootlegged VHS and DVD copies, digital copies, and most prominently in the press, illegitimate streaming...