How I deploy my site
I am generally a big fan of Continues deployment (CD) systems for production applications. but for a small scale system like this website most of these are far to heavy weight. But I can build a simple solution to do this for me getting most of the same benefits.
Building …
more ...Using MyIpUpdater to update dynamic public Addresses
Introduction
Anyone that has run public services out of their own home has run into the issue where there ISP is dynamically assigning them a Public IP address. So they need some method to dynamically update there DNS records to reflect there changing IP address.
There is several good services …
more ...Adding a second drive to the zpool
Introduction
In Running Nextcloud on Raspberry PI next steps I discussed adding a external drive with ZFS. But I only used a single drive, if that was the end game I would have been much better off sticking wtih EXT4 or similar. Well now I am going to take advantage …
more ...Running Nextcloud on Raspberry PI next steps
Introduction
As I discussed in my last post I did not have a well setup up location for my files to be stored. Sense then I have picked up a external Hard drive and a Raspberry Pi4 4GB to serve this purpose. In this I will be using ZFS mostly …
more ...Running Nextcloud on Raspberry PI
This Post on http://unixetc.co.uk inspired me to set up my own NextCloud server on a raspberry pi. If you want a dead simple install I would follow that guide. But I wanted to go a bit farther and see what kind of performance I could get out …
more ...2 ways to test and 7 ways to improve your load times
Anyone that has used the internet has been frustrated by slow load times for websites. This can vary from simple annoyance to completely abandoning the site due to how slow it is to load and use. While certain things like the speed of light or bad cell connections is outside …
more ...Getting Pi-hole to do reverse lookups
As I was unable to find this anywhere on the web and had to walk back to the solution from dnsmasq I thought that some others may find this interesting.
The problem
Many users of Pi-hole would the built in DHCP server. But for those like me that have a …
more ...Acceptible Failure
While we think of failure as a binary True/False this is rarely the case. The success or failure is a culmination of all the parts coming together. By thinking about this beforehand you can think about the level of success in these parts. You can have a overall failure …
more ...Jekyll on Windows 10
Installing Jekyll on windows.
I installed this based on the excellent guide on setting this up on Jekyll's site here. https://jekyllrb.com/docs/windows/
This is a overview of the commands that I run.
- Update system
sudo apt-get update -y && sudo apt-get upgrade -y
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu …