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...
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.
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