The Essential Guide To Self Hosting Services

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How-To: Install Zabbix 6.2 on CentOS Stream 9

What is Zabbix? Zabbix is an open source enterprise class monitoring solution. You can collect metrics from a seemingly unlimited amount of sources. These include network devices, cloud services, cloud containers, virtual machines, OS monitoring, log files, databases, applications, IoT devices, log files, endpoints, and more. The Zabbix Agent can be deployed on any operating … Read more

How-To: Install Jellyfin Media Server on Ubuntu 20.04

Intro What is Jellyfin? Jellyfin, much like Plex and Emby, is a media server you can host yourself. It can handle movies, tv shows, and music and has a nice interface for organizing and viewing content, as well as streaming it to every device in your home. This install happens on an ubuntu server 20.0.4 … Read more

How-To: Install ZFS on CentOS Stream 8

Intro The (Z)(F)ile(S)ystem is an incredible software raid filesystem. It includes features not found in other filesystems. ZFS is robust, scaleable, and easy to administor. Thanks to zol (zfs on Linux) we can now enjoy its features on linux as well as BSD based distributions. ZFS uses storage pools as a way to manage physical … Read more

How-To: Setup NFS and Samba on FreeBSD 13

In this tutorial we are going to be setting up a FreeBSD file server using NFS and/or Samba. There are many reasons to use FreeBSD for a file server, a fe examples are its unmatched stability and native ZFS. We will be doing this on a fresh install of FreeBSD 13. Preliminary: First of all … Read more

How-To: Setup SSH keys on linux for passwordless authentication

This tutorial is going to be teaching you how to setup SSH keys on linux for passwordless authentication. In our lab, we already have our DNS resolving locally so we are going to be using hostnames rather than IP addresses. IP addresses will work in place of the hostname, otherwise, you can add the IP … Read more