I have a home server running Ubuntu, which fulfils a multitude of roles for me – SSH server, NAS, sometime web server, data archive and general workhorse for network tasks. It’s currently running mdadm configured in RAID5 with 3x2TB disks. Back in 2020, when building the server, I decided on a 8×2.5″ drive enclosure mainly … Read more
Keeping systems up to date is key for security. Realising my server was way past its prime, I decided to undertake a ‘quick’ update….. it wasn’t quick…
So one Sunday evening back in February I decided to have a go setting up an OpenVPN client/server. This didn’t seem at the time to be a big task as I had done this before, and my memory was of it taking a while to do, but it wasn’t too hard. Boy did it take … Read more
After years of avoiding it, I decided to finally run a WordPress website for my projects and thoughts. I was always on the lookout for the ‘best’ platform for running a site, and even wrote my own based on various stacks including the most recent on Django, but they always fell short. You know there … Read more
