If you have a Synology NAS then you can have pretty much everything that Google Photos has, with none of the (no longer free) cost. You also don’t have to give your photos and videos away to google or anybody else that you don’t want to. At the same time, you can share select photos … Read more
My Synology NAS (DS-1520+) has been running DSM 6, which is showing its age. I starting building this in 2018 and recently migrated to this new hardware. The server has been built from scratch with this one major release of the operating system. A few months ago DSM 7.0 was released and I’ve both been … Read more
This is just a little testament to the power of using Active Backup for Business on your NAS for backing up multiple workstations in your home or office. Aside from the many good features in this product, it does a great job of saving disk space by eliminating duplicate data blocks not only from a … Read more
I kind of stumbled on how great Synology Video Station is for playing and sharing your private collection of videos with all your devices, and/or other select people or the public as you designate. Starting out with just the hardware for my DS1520+ server and a private collection of videos, I just downloaded and configured … Read more
To catch you up a little, I recently added a Synology DS1520+ to my home network. I’ve moved at least most of the services that were on my DS918+ onto this new server. In the process I’m learning how to setup a level of redundancy so if one server goes down, I can continue with … Read more
My site is now hosted by a new DS-1520+ server I’ve brought online. In the process I’ve figured out how to move a wordpress site. The steps fell into place pretty smoothly until right near the end when I tried to restore my wordpress database backup and could not! Ultimately I figured out a workaround … Read more
Testing your network for speed stats like bandwidth and latency seems pretty basic. Getting that for my Synology NAS has been less than easy though because Synology surprisingly does not yet have an application for that. Yes you can put a device next to the NAS and make some assumptions about what the NAS sees. … Read more
This past summer I revamped my local area network, putting my own router between my devices and the internet. I used to connect devices directly (by wire or wifi) to my ISP modem (AT&T). To improve security, I decided to buy this Synology RT-2600ac router. This allows me to funnel all internet traffic (really all … Read more
Maintaining good backups of workstations in my life is important to me. I have what is for me a complex digital life that is important to being a functional human being. I’ll leave it at that. I don’t want to run significant risk of losing it. I’ve been burned in the past and things either … Read more
My site is finally accessible with “www” URLs such as http://www.walterstovall.online to reach my home page. It might seem weird that I would just now get around to that but I go where I’m drawn. I consider it a milestone in my site-build that I even care 🙂 In reality this is a little more … Read more