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My life as an IP hobo and the promise of Dynamic DNS

When your servers don’t respond / who you gonna call? Well, maybe not call but look. And I’m talking about my server residing on my HTPC not yours.…

Post date September 4, 2018
Post categories In Linux, Server

Moving site: Using MySQL to search-and-replace WordPress domain name

It seems that the recommended way to change the references to the domain name in MySQL on a WordPress install is to take the whole thing offline and…

Post date September 2, 2018
Post categories In Linux, Server

WordPress on Docker: The 1-2-3 approach

There’s an official WordPress docker image on the hub. Which means I have no good excuse to go make my own. Here’s my bad excuse: The official approach…

Post date August 10, 2018
Post categories In Linux, Server

Let’s do Dovecot slowly and properly: Part 2 – Proper authentication

Encrypting communications with dovecot and hashing passwords for safe storage

Post date June 19, 2018
Post categories In Linux, Server

Let’s do Dovecot slowly and properly – Part 1: PLAIN as day

Configuring a very basic dovecot setup as a foundation for more advanced features later on

Post date June 4, 2018
Post categories In Linux, Server
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Setting up Postfix and Dovecot Slowly and Properly

Back in 2015 I embarked on an ambitious plan to blog my entire way through setting up my own selfhosted email server. I got a fair bit in…

Post date June 4, 2018
Post categories In Linux, Server

Homeserver: NUC vs Raspberry Pi

I have tried at various points to write a followup to my “so what’s it like using a NUC for a homeserver/HTPC?” post. Mostly it strands on there…

Post date October 11, 2017
Post categories In Desktop, Linux, Server

Chorus2 + Firefox 51 = Easier music streaming

One of many new features in Kodi 17 is the new default web frontend, Chorus2. The old Kodi frontend was an extremely basic web remote that allowed you…

Post date February 12, 2017
Post categories In Desktop, Linux, Server