This post explores some techniques I’ve been using to improve the security of some services on my home network and make it easier to recover them in the event of hardware/other disasters. Below, I’ll describe how and why I’m moving more and more services onto virtual machines (VM). This is better for security because you … Read more
For all the docker users out there, I thought I’d share a couple points about managing docker containers on your home server. These are important security issues that get commonly missed. The simple examples you see on the internet for installing docker containers won’t usually mention these things. But they might save your whole system … Read more
Whew! It’s been a few intense months. I’ve been too engaged to stop and take note of any of it. But I’m taking a breather here to mention a couple things I’ve been working on and talk about the New Home for this blog and how that fits in. With my DS-1520+ server with its … Read more
I started out with just thousands of picture files when I loaded it all into Synology Photos. I’ve been playing with what it can do for a while, but initially missed the face detection when I setup my account and just turned that on this morning. Initially my login showed a new People folder to … Read more
I have several web sites and other information or entertainment resources on my local network. Since it’s all mine here, it seems silly to not be able to use my own stuff just because the internet is down! But that’s exactly what would normally happen, all because of just one thing…DNS lookups. Let’s say I … Read more
Either way the awesome tools in Synology DSM 7.0 have you covered completely for free and with minimal fuss 🙂 I’ve had a burr in my butt around the need for multifactor authentication on my server, especially for an admin account that if stolen, would be awful needless to say. It’s equally important for other … Read more
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