January 18, 2024 Networking / Self-hosting / Ubuntu / Wireshark

Monitor Your Network with Wireshark

Including a primer on SPAN and installation instructions for Ubuntu 22.04 One of the best

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September 25, 2023 Backups / Proxmox / Self-hosting / Virtualization

Getting Started with Proxmox VE 8.0

Set up your virtual environment and create virtual machines lightning fast One of the best

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September 21, 2023 Cybersecurity / Networking / Self-hosting / VPN / WireGuard

Access Your Home Network Remotely with WireGuard

Including a Quick How-to on DDNS NOTE: If your network is Carrier-Grade NAT (CGNAT) or

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September 11, 2023 Apache / Cybersecurity / Elastic Search / Filebeat / Kibana / Logstash

Install Elastic (ELK) Stack 8.x on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Including Filebeat installation and configuration for log shipping Formerly known as the ELK stack, the

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August 27, 2023 Cybersecurity / DoS/DDoS / Intrusion Prevention / Web Application Firewall

Web Application Firewall Setup for Apache Server

Including additional configuration for intrusion prevention and DDoS protection We’re now at a good stage

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August 25, 2023 Let's Encrypt / Self-hosting / Wordpress

Install Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificate for Apache on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Plus an introduction to basic website hardening In my previous post, we installed WordPress on

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August 13, 2023 Apache / MySQL / PHP / Self-hosting / Ubuntu / Wordpress

Install WordPress on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Getting started with the LAMP stack and phpMyAdmin The fastest way to get started with

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