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Why Run Your Own Music Streaming Server? I've been an iTunes user for more than a decade, in fact going on two decades now.  I liked it, and still like it somewhat, but with the move to split everything out, the interface is painful to me.  Getting music to...

Encrypted messaging has become a hot mess of one off platforms, and painful setups over the past 10 to 15 years.  Before that, everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, used a standardized protocol that was awesome, and still is.  XMPP was used by Microsoft, Yahoo, Exc...

Proxmox is an excellent, powerful, and sophisticated Virtualization Operating System built on Linux.  It's Open Source, and, of course, self hosted.   I know I usually cover Docker based apps for virtualization, but there are benefits to being able to instal...

I've covered NGinX Proxy Manager, a web GUI for NGinX Web Server in multiple videos.  I essentially use it anytime I want to give a web site a public URL with Ssl encryption (so basically always).   One of the questions I get fairly often is about how to Se...

What's NginX? NginX (pronounced Engine-X) is a web-server, and reverse proxy.  Basically, it can serve up web pages, and can provide a proxy service for incoming web requests.  It all sounds a bit generic, but that's because it is.  NginX can serve web page...

We'll be taking a small series adventure into the world of TrueNAS.  I'll be starting with TrueNAS core (formerly FreeNAS).  If you've never heard of TrueNAS(or FreeNAS), then let me explain a bit. Truenas is a self hosted Network Attached Storage solution. ...