Today’s post is all about finding flexibility between hopping between all your favorite network devices, even when you’re out and about. Or, maybe you’re a small business and have ambitions to set up a site to site VPN so your employees can authenticate and access local resources. This post is…
Month: January 2024
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Server Recovery: Hostname Issue (Proxmox), empty /etc/pve directory, resilience, the solution, and lessons learned
A scary Proxmox server issue This is a story all about how I was doing a simple configuration on my Proxmox server and I wanted to edit the hostname so that I could have it match with my SSL certificate. This was signed by my own Intermediate Certificate Authority on…
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Tailscale VPN Firewall Issue: A lesson on troubleshooting
Sometimes it takes banging your head against a wall a couple times before you finally figure out a problem. This can apply to all sorts of things, and often we can become guilty of resorting to muscle memory, where our practice amalgamates into habit instead. Before we know it, we…
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Docker Container Deployments: How I’ve been refining my homelab
Nginx Proxy Manager I recently upgraded from my traditional method of using PfSense’s built in DNS Resolver to translate to my local domain names, and I pointed the DNS in the resolver to a container running Nginx Proxy Manager. There are some upsides to this as everything is able to…
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Alerting Scam Victims with Self-Hosted Email (Mailcow)
A blog post all about how I used a cloud server provider, (Linode) to deploy a self-hosted instance of Mailcow in a docker container, all for a mission to alert scam victims of a fake Norton Security refund scam. Thank you, scammer! Hello everyone! I am back with another post,…