System & Network Admin

Running a home server does not have to mean setting up a full-blown monitoring stack. For my needs, a few shell scripts and push notifications are all it takes to keep things simple, reliable, and easy to maintain. I use ntfy.sh for notifications. It is a simple, open-source tool that lets you send push notifications to your devices via a single HTTP request. It is lightweight, easy to set up, and fits perfectly with my minimalist approach.

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List of official and community contributed libraries for interacting with the Vault HTTP API.

Caddy as a reverse proxy for Docker. Contribute to lucaslorentz/caddy-docker-proxy development by creating an account on GitHub.

A collection of NixOS modules covering hardware quirks. - NixOS/nixos-hardware

Learn what causes CPU and GPU bottlenecks, how to identify them, and practical fixes to balance performance. Includes tips for gaming, high-resolution tasks, and hardware upgrades.

Explains Linux command to check disk space to find disk space usage, estimate file space usage and more using the df, du and other CLI.

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libguestfs, library and tools for accessing and modifying VM disk images

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Learn Linux basics with Bandit Level 0→1! Explore SSH, ls, cat, man pages, and file reading while uncovering Unix's history and secure access methods.

This is the first part of an experimental journey as I explore how many instances of my favorite IoT framework I can run on the 192 core Ampere One.

In this article, you'll find 11 of the best tools to create a bootable USB from an ISO image on Windows, Linux, and macOS – including Rufus, Etcher, and Ventoy.

Is your Linux system slow? Learn how to safely clear RAM cache, buffer, and swap space to instantly free up memory. Simple steps, no reboot required.

Learn how to create the non-existing target directory automatically when we copy files

Well, kind of the easy way. I honestly had better results using this appraoch than with the Terraform plugins available for Proxmox. The solution is to run QEMU commands directly in the proxmox node’s CLI and use a cloud-init OS image. The cloud-init images are typically in qcow2 storage format 1. I will be using the latest debian 12 Bookworm image from the official repo. wget https://cloud.debian.org/images/cloud/bookworm/latest/debian-12-generic-amd64.qcow2 Next, let’s create a virtual machine template with 2gb of memory and 2 cores and set networking to use the default bridge vmbr0.

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In this article, we will review some of the most used command-line tools and utilities for network management, troubleshooting and debugging in Linux.

Learn how to quickly compress an entire directory into a single tar file with the command line.

In this article, you'll learn how to use mkcert to generate locally trusted HTTPS certificates for local development environments in Linux.

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Monitor your NUT server with a great web dashboard