This article goes through all the reasons why you might want to replace Proxmox with Incus / LXD and how it could save you from a lot of headaches down the line. While free Proxmox, much like VMWare ESXi was, is a potential disaster waiting to happen.

There are cases where we need LXD / Incus containers to have direct access to the network. In such cases, we want the containers to be assigned an IP address by a router on the network, treating them as individual devices on the network rather than containers inside a host machine that get to the network through NAT.

For those of us running servers with nftables it was great news to discover that pvxe/nftables-geoip now has the ability to generate IP lists by country. This feature can be used to, for instance, drop all traffic from specific countries or, the opposite – allow traffic only from your own country.

@Haui@discuss.tchncs.de asked me an interesting question: how could he pull emails from multiple providers such as Gmail and Outlook into his home server? This article assumes you have working experience with Linux and can set up a local Dovecot and Postfix server to handle your e-mail.

In this article I’ll show you how to properly setup SmartDNS in DD-WRT. You’ll get advanced DNS caching, faster DNS using multiple resolvers and most importantly encrypted DNS with DoT (DNS over TLS) and DoH (DNS over HTTPS).

É uma loucura como os serviços de VPN tomaram a Internet. Se não confiam a vossa informação a um ISP como podem confia-la a um VPN?

It’s insane how VPN services have taken over the internet nowadays. If you don’t trust your ISP with your data, why would you trust a VPN provider?

DD-WRT’s WebUI includes an “Automatic Drive Mount” feature that works just fine until you’ve multiple USB drives. It seems that when the router reboots USB drives get mounted in different/unpredictable paths. At the end of this article you’ll be able to have predictable USB mount points.

Este serviço de Internet e VoIP “empresarial de gama alta” é vendido como podendo ser configurado em “bridge” no qual um router do cliente pode alocar um IP público, mas não é bem assim. No fim deste artigo deverá ser claro como configurar o serviço MEO GlobalConnect Pack num router DD-WRT, OpenWrt ou num servidor.

É possível utilizar o número do telefone fixo do serviço fibra da Vodafone no computador ou telemóvel? A resposta é SIM. Ao contrário da MEO na Vodafone o processo é bem mais simples e explico neste artigo como o fazer.