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...
One of the most popular pieces on this site was an article I wrote just over a year and a half ago on how to set up an affordable and small home server. It proved wildly popular, I think, because of the ProLiant's modest price point and ease of use. However, that was back in early 2015. We're now...
Any audiophile will attest to compiling albums well into the hundreds, or even thousands. When a music collection grows, it can become harder to keep it well managed.
The main problem with managing a music collection is, generally, each collector has their own way of archiving their music. We all...
This seems to generate a lot of questions and queries so thought I’d do a quick walkthrough.
First of all you need to install MariaDB, now one of the stipulations of Nextcloud is that it requires binary logging to be enabled on the MariaDB server. I’ve already got one instance of...
Let me begin by saying if you are reading this article considering whether or not to purchase the Dell XPS 13 (9350) Skylake revision to run Linux, just do it. The build quality is fantastic, it runs Linux extremely well and dat display. That display…
This article will get you up and running from...
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.
Choosing how to store your data is one of the most hotly debated topics amongst data hoarders. I frequently...
At Linuxserver.io we decided that this may be a good way for us to run test dockers and compile the mediabuild leaving our own personal arrays intact. Especially for creating the mediabuild it means that restarts do not need to happen on the host, which was only possible for me if my wife was not u...
In recent years it has become increasingly popular to own your own home server. Whether it's for personal private data backup, home automation or media storage more and more people are looking into solutions that fit their own personal needs. This guide will cover step-by-step how to go from nothing...
I’ll leave a lot of the theory out and just focus on trying to get you up and running as quick as possible providing example commands. I found the biggest hurdle when learning Docker was understanding exactly what it was and why I should care. I wrote a little post sharing my thoughts on Docker on...