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Dolibarr is a free, open source, self hosted ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and CRM (Client Relationship Management) system.  I have covered ERPNext in the past, and people seem to be interested in it, so I wanted to provide information on how to ins...

I wanted to clear up the steps a bit, as my original set is a bit convoluted. I made it more complicated (slightly) than it has to be, and figure there is an easier way. The following is based on using Portaianer-CE as a front end GUI (Graphical User Interf...

Pi-hole is an amazing tool with tons of functionality beyond it's main purpose of filtering out ads from your devices.  Now, imagine you went to all that trouble to get rid of those ads and tracking, but you still send all your requests right through your IS...

Human Resource Management, or HRM, is a broad topic to say the least.  In this episode of Building a Business on Open Source, we'll be taking a look at OrangeHRM.  This offering seems like a really nice option for a start-up business, all the way up to a bus...

I have covered multiple chat applications over the years, and as I was digging through my list of bookmarks I ran across this application that I had put aside unitl it had become a little more mature.  It's still quite new, but also in a state where I believ...

LazyDocker is an amazingly useful command line utility for managing Docker applications / services.  The interface is generated completely int he CLI (command line interface) so it's available with a simple SSH login to the host server.  It's cross platform,...

Along the same lines as Homer, Heimdall, and Monitorr; I wanted to continue our look into personal web dashboards.  I've posted about those few, and talked about others as well.   Sometimes the question comes up, and it's a valid one, "Why would I use this ...

NTOPNG (I rponounce it N-Top-N-G) is a browser based server application you can run in Docker.  By setting it up properly, it can scan your entire network and provide analytical data back about traffic patterns adn levels from different machines or sub-netwo...

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. ...

This is where I post my almost annual information regarding which open source software I actually use on a day to day basis. The list changes from year to year, and I think it's good for you all to see that I don't just preach open source, but I try to live ...

Backing up your application data regardless of how you run it is one of the most vital things you'll need to do as a self-hoster, a system administrator, or just a daily user of software.  The topic is vast, and full of amazing options, and amazing softwar...

I'm a pretty big fan of the Fediverse. I'm not a massive social media person beyond Youtube, but I'm just really kind of done with Facebook, Twitter, and even Reddit is starting to rub me the wrong way lately.  It's truly not the politics that bother me. I'm...

Viseron is fairly new to the open source options for NVRs as of the writing of this article.  It's got a good set of features available, but definitely still young.  Pros Fairly simple to get running in docker. Works with RTSP based cameras and MJpeg st...