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'Email' Notifications With Ntfy and Mailrise

One of the greatest problems in homelabbing/selfhosting is notifications, now you could use e-mail but let’s be honest it’s a pain in the ass to deal with. But some applications only support e-mail so.. what do we do? We turn those e-mail notifications into another form, and because we wanna selfhost it we gonna also selfhost the actual delivery of the e-mail with the use of a neat program called ntfy....

<span title='2023-11-13 11:01:44 +0100 +0100'>November 13, 2023</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;478 words&nbsp;·&nbsp;Stetsed

Grafana Prometheus Monitoring

Hey everybody, today we will be going through on how to setup a Grafana + Prometheus stack to allow you to monitor external tools such as Blocky and other services that can output to prometheus(Basically anything with some effort). I have used this to monitor my Linux ISO collector, and my DNS server and it has worked great and has allowed me to create nice dashboards for use. We will be using docker and docker compose to set it up with bind mounts so that trasnfering data is easy....

<span title='2023-09-14 12:13:14 +0200 +0200'>September 14, 2023</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;591 words&nbsp;·&nbsp;Stetsed

Proxmox ZFS ShareNFS

Hey everybody, quick guide today as I could find very little info on this so decided to write this. I will be going through the steps to use ShareNFS on proxmox combined with ZFS to setup an NFS server. We will be adding a few paramters to give convienct access to the NFS server however as I will explain later some of my ones might introduce some inherent risk. Requirments Promox VE8 Server* Root Access A cup of Coffee An earlier version of proxmox may work and I used the same on Proxmox VE7 but it may not work on earlier versions, do it at your own risk....

<span title='2023-09-13 12:49:05 +0200 +0200'>September 13, 2023</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;463 words&nbsp;·&nbsp;Stetsed

Proxmox Floating Ip

Hey everybody welcome back to another guide, today I will be showing you how we can setup a Floating IP on Proxmox VE 8 using Keepalived. This can be handy when your running a cluster and you want to always make your proxmox available even if one of the nodes is down without having to rely on another program to do this for you like NGINX or HAProxy. Requirments 2 or more Proxmox VE 8 nodes Root access to all nodes An IP you designate as a floating IP Setup First let’s go ahead and install keepalived...

<span title='2023-08-27 11:32:03 +0200 +0200'>August 27, 2023</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;587 words&nbsp;·&nbsp;Stetsed

Dell iDrac Fan Speed Control

Hey everybody, quick guide today on how to manually set the fan speed on your Dell iDrac. This is useful if you want to lower the noise of your Dell server. As most dell servers have a fan floor which means it will always be loud even when it’s already cooled off. Prerequisites Dell Server with iDrac iDrac IP address iDrac username and password Linux Box Step 1: Install ipmitool Firstly we will want to go ahead and install the tool that will allow us to send commands to the IPMI(iDrac is a form of IPMI)....

<span title='2023-08-21 13:47:47 +0200 +0200'>August 21, 2023</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;617 words&nbsp;·&nbsp;Stetsed

Mailrise Email Notifications Gateway

Hey everybody, I usually don’t have notifications because well… I don’t want to get a third party email service to send emails. So when looking for solutions I recently found Mailrise which acts as a SMTP gateway and forwards emails to your own email address. It’s a great solution to use because it means you can send notifications anywhere and in this guide I will be showing how to set it up on Discord....

<span title='2023-06-28 15:29:36 +0200 +0200'>June 28, 2023</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;585 words&nbsp;·&nbsp;Stetsed

DN42 Network UFW Firewall

Hey, welcome back my blog. Today I will be going through on how to setup a firewall for the DN42 network so that it can’t acces other stuff like the open web over the wireguard connections you open. It’s a really scuffed way of doing it but I’m just logging it here because I need to remember itself. Setup Install Firstly we will want to go ahead and install UFW, to do this use one of the below command on your distro of choice....

<span title='2023-06-26 14:02:13 +0200 +0200'>June 26, 2023</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;590 words&nbsp;·&nbsp;Stetsed

Hugo Blog With Github Actions

Hey everybody, per a request from the Reddit post I made asking for idears which can be found here. I have decided to explain how to setup a Hugo Blog like I have done with this blog. We will be using the papermod theme which can be found here. I will also be using Github Actions to automatically build and deploy the blog to github pages. Nothing would stop you from deploying this to your own server using something like NGINX, and I may make a follow up post on how to do this....

<span title='2023-06-20 09:06:38 +0200 +0200'>June 20, 2023</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;5 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;1008 words&nbsp;·&nbsp;Stetsed

Mullvad UDM Pro Network Wide VPN

Today I will be showing how to use Mullvad VPN on the UDM Pro. This is a great way to secure your entire network and keep your ISP from spying on you. This is also a great way to get around geo blocking. This is a very simple setup and should only take a few minutes to complete. Requirments Have a paid for mullvad account Have a UDM Pro or UDM Pro SE (I have not tested this on the UDM) UDM Stands for Unifi Dream Machine Getting the OVPN file Firstly we will need to get the OVPN file, we will get this from mullvad....

<span title='2023-06-07 13:56:48 +0200 +0200'>June 7, 2023</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;4 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;828 words&nbsp;·&nbsp;Stetsed

ZFS on Arch Linux

Good evening, today I will be showing in this guide how to use the ZFS(Zetabyte-File-System) on Arch Linux. I shall be doing this because ZFS has a number of advantages that can be useful such as: Builtin Snapshots Feature Builtin Encryption Builtin File System Compression Builtin Deduplication Builtin Volume Manager Builtin Transfer Mechanism All of these features together make it a really appealing option to use as your file system, but do be warned that due to licensing issues between the GPL which Linux uses and CDDL which ZFS uses, ZFS cannot be included into the main line kernel....

<span title='2023-05-29 09:00:56 +0200 +0200'>May 29, 2023</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;8 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;1602 words&nbsp;·&nbsp;Stetsed