When exposing services running on your home server to the Internet, you only allow encrypted connections. I’m exposing Home Assistant, Jellyfin and some other things via a containerized Nginx with HTTP3 and I use Let’s Encrypt to supply certificates. With...
After relying on MiniDLNA for a long time I switched to Jellyfin as my media server. And I decided to give transcoding on-the-fly a go. Getting it to work wasn’t difficult but not as easy as toggling a switch either....
I use msmtp as a simple SMTP relay to forward system messages to my Gmail address. After upgrading Rocky Linux to version 9, I noticed msmtp isn’t (yet?) available in the repositories. So I built it myself.
Pi-hole is a DNS server you run on your own network which filters out any unwanted lookups and therefore reduces your bandwidth usage. I installed it in a Podman container and configured my OpenWRT box.
After the basic installation of Rocky Linux, it’s time to finish the setup. We’re preparing the system to actually deploy useful stuff.
