In the world of self-hosting and home servers, having a reliable backup strategy is paramount. If you’re running KVM virtual machines (VMs) in your home lab, you know that manually backing up these VMs can...
I faced a curious problem where my Grafana instance suddenly would be unable to connect to the database after working fine for days. The logs indicate the Grafana container attempting to connect on port 53,...
Have you ever noticed that when you use Spotify’s shuffle feature, you always end up hearing the same songs over and over again? It can be incredibly frustrating to hear the same music all the...
This has been the bane of my existence for some time until I finally decided to investigate and resolve this issue on my server in order to install proprietary Nvidia drivers through the Additional Drivers...
You need a reliable backup strategy, whether you’re running an off the shelf NAS to collect family photos, or operating an entire datacenter from your garage. Throughout my time self-hosting my smart home system (and...
With the ever increasing resolution of cameras, SD cards tend to run out of space very quickly and begin overwriting footage after only a few days to recover disk space. The onboard SD is therefore...
As the complexity of your smart home increases, its important to implement some kind of system monitoring to ensure long term reliability and stability of the different components that make up the system. When integration...
