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Bricked Unifi USG

Bricked Unifi USG

You are having the problem that your USG recently goes offline and online regularly within your UniFi Controller? High latency and slow SSH on your USG? You are at the right spot! I was having trouble maniging my USG whenever I changed something within my network, this is when I

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Migrate Unifi-Site to new Controller

Project Homeserver 2023

Migrate Unifi-Site to new Controller

This post is a follow-up to my last post about how to set up a new Unifi-Controller with docker and attach it to your network. Prerequisites: 1. Old Controller up and running. Vers. 7.2.94 2. New Controller up and running with new IP. Vers. 7.2.94 3.

Unifi-Controller with NPM

Project Homeserver 2023

Unifi-Controller with NPM

This is another post of my Homeserver Project series but this time, we are doing some networking and subnetting too. Since I'm building my home setup from scratch, with some previously Raspberry Pi's, I want everything I already use or want to use in one server,

Uptime Kuma with Docker Compose

Project Homeserver 2023

Uptime Kuma with Docker Compose

In this post I will give you a tutorial on how to set up Uptime Kuma with an already running Portainer & network setup with Nginx Proxy Manager. Prerequisites: 1. Docker and Docker Compose installed an running 2. Nginx Proxy Manager installed and running 3. Portainer installed and running Step

Install Portainer with Docker Compose

Project Homeserver 2023

Install Portainer with Docker Compose

In this post I will explain how to install Portainer with Docker Compose with nginx Proxy Manager. Prerequisites: 1. You've installed docker and docker compose on your system with this post. 2. You've installed nginx Proxy Manager with docker compose like this. Step 1: Create directory

Reverse Proxy with NGINX

Project Homeserver 2023

Reverse Proxy with NGINX

Because many people don't want to spend too much money for a big server farm where they can run many VMs under a hypervisor, especially at home, it makes sense to run several services on only one server or mini-pc. In my case I solve this problem with

Install Docker Compose

Install Docker Compose

In this post I will install docker compose on my Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS homeserver. The prerequisite for this is an already installed Ubuntu server as well as root and ssh access. It is useful if you followed the inital configuration for a fresh install from DigitalOcean. Step 1:

Ubuntu Resize Disk

Ubuntu Resize Disk

I bought a mini-pc from lenovo for a new home server project. I will cover this project in future posts. So stay tuned. I have chosen the latest version of Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS. But during the installation I guess I didn't take care that the complete

Veeam-Backup with SFTP

Veeam-Backup with SFTP

In a previous post I already wrote about how to create a backup with veeam to an FTP-server. However, I have encountered problems with the mounpoint in the past. Unfortunately the server loses the connection to the remote SFTP-server and the password has to be re-entered. To avoid this I

Plausible Analytics with Ghost

Plausible Analytics with Ghost

Plausible is a cookie-less and lightweight web analytics service. This is why I decided to use Plausible over Google Analytics. Especially for privacy reasons because it does not use cookies so there is no need to show a cookie banner for this service. Anyway I wanted to implement Plausible to

Update Image with Portainer

Update Image with Portainer

Managing your docker containers by cli was a pain for me. That's why I set up a docker container with Portainer to manage my running containers and keep the update process as simple as possible. In this post I won't go into detail how to set

Raspberry Pi Zero Wifi issue

Raspberry Pi Zero Wifi issue

I was playing around and writing another Tutorial on setting up 3 Raspi Zero Wifi for Docker Swarm when I came around some connectivity problems with the wifi connection. I was barely able to configure and/or use the ssh connection of the Zeros. Jump to Solution First Try: reconnect

Upgrade Ghost with SQLite to MySQL

Since Ghost made the change from it's built in SQLite database to MySQL 8 I was forced to upgrade to the latest version of Ghost to keep everything up-to-date and secure since there was a critical update recently. When I set this site up I wanted it lightweight

Veeam-Backup your VPS to a FTP-Server

Veeam-Backup your VPS to a FTP-Server

Due to the fact that I have a VPS with a hoster, I want to back it up properly since there is data I don't want to lose and also configurations made I would have to redo. Preferably I don't want to do the backups with

Raspberry Pi Zero Headless Setup

Raspberry Pi Zero Headless Setup

As I described in this post how to run a Raspberry Pi Zero headless this came with some issues after I updated to the latest version (After April 2022). If you ran into the same issue you need to follow the newest headless setup tutorial. Headless setup with Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi Zero Headless Setup - pre April 2022

Raspberry Pi Zero Headless Setup - pre April 2022

Since the Raspberry Zero comes with only Wifi I will go into further detail how to use the Zero with headless setup. 0. Preperation: Get the latest Raspbian OS Lite Image from the offical website and flash it with BelenaEtcher to your SD-card. After flashing you will get 2 partitions:

WordPress Brute Force Protection

WordPress Brute Force Protection

Recently my WordPress website was targeted by a massive brute force attack, trying to break into my admin account. In this post I will go into further detail how I got rid of the attacker and what plugins I used to alert and protect my WebSite from those kind attacks.