Apple. Why must you make the hardware I paid for less and less useful in the name of security? Stop it! It is a tool I require to do my job and perform interactions with other hardware on my network. If I choose to run Java then bloody well let me. I understand the inherent security risks but when...
There might be the odd occasion where you want to know what your drives are up to individually. Enter, dstat. Do follow the link as the site has a plethora of other options to try!
This tool is installable on Debian with apt install dstat and provides a bunch of useful information. You can run...
The aim of this guide will be to show new users of our containers how to get started on the QNAP platform. I will cover how to go about setting up the user and permissions as well as the information you need to enter during each screen of the Container Station wizard. With this guide,...
We would like to announce that we now have a Discord Server! Please come and join us at: https://discord.gg/YWrKVTn
Over the years we've tried various forms of community building from forums to comment sections to IRC. We'd like to invite you to our new Discord server which is replacing Slack f...
Netflix is, in my eyes, a world-leader in video delivery, so I figured if they can use AWS to serve their content, why can't I? I mean, sure, they're an international multi-billion dollar powerhouse, and I am but one man. Still, I thought to myself if anything else, it'd make an interesting case-stu...
Users looking for personal backup solutions today have a plethora of options to choose from. Monthly subscription services like Crashplan, Carbonite, and Backblaze offer comprehensive personal and enterprise backup solutions. Users willing to put in a little extra elbow grease can make use of their...
The Perfect Media Series has a new home at perfectmediaserver.com. This series remains public here for informational purposes only - for questions or support please visit the new site.
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.
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...