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Spinning up a Castopod Instance

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//castopod// Latest Updates: https://wiki.haacksnetworking.org/doku.php?id=computing:castopod This tutorial is for Debian users wanting to set up a production-ready Castopod instance. Make sure you have a [[https://wiki.haacksnetworking.org/doku.php?id=computing:apachesurvival|sufficiently hardened]] VPS and LAMP stack first, then proceed: Make sure you set the /etc/postfix/main.cf interface to loopback-only. Now, set up the database by running sudo mysql -u root -p and entering…

Creating a Production Pixelfed Instance

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//pix3lfed// Latest Updates: https://wiki.haacksnetworking.org/doku.php?id=computing:pix3lfed [Update: After initially getting approved for Discovery, I then received no response back from the Pixelfed dev team, so pulled the instance down for now. Without Discovery, no one can use the phone app, which renders it pointless. If I receive word back, happy to spin it back up and restart…

Switching My Production Server to BTRFS

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//btrfsreminders// Latest Updates: https://wiki.haacksnetworking.org/doku.php?id=computing:btrfsreminders IntroductionThis tutorial is for Debian users that want to create a JBOD pool using BTRFS subvolumes and its RAID10 equivalent. These types of setups are common and helpful for virtualization environments and hosting multiple services, either for serious home hobbyist use and/or small business level production. These approaches are not designed…

Spinning up Jellyfin

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//jellyfin// Latest Updates: https://wiki.haacksnetworking.org/doku.php?id=computing:jellyfin This tutorial is for Debian users wanting to set up a production-ready Jellyfin server. This instance runs on a VM inside my virsh+qemu stack recently recapped in detail in this article. This VM is set up with a LAMP stack, a reverse proxy with Let’s Encrypt, automated syncing, scanning, and some…

Classic Bridging w/ ifupdown

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//classic-bridging// Latest Updates: https://wiki.haacksnetworking.org/doku.php?id=computing:classic-bridging This tutorial is for Debian users who want to create network bridges, or virtual switches, on production hosts. By production hosts, I mean something that’s designed to run virtual appliances (VMs, containers, etc.). This tutorial assumes you have access to PTR records and/or have a block of external IPs. In this…

Managing AI Bots+ w/ Apache MPM, FPM, & Fail2Ban

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//managingbots// Latest Updates: https://wiki.haacksnetworking.org/doku.php?id=computing:managingbots This tutorial is designed for Debian OS and LAMP stack users that want to track and or prohibit bot scraping (or other url requests) that might harm server performance and/or cause it to fail. In my case, I have a multi-site WordPress that includes my tech blog, poetry, and teaching blog.…

Perfecting the Self-Hosted Email Server

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//mailserver////roundcube// Latest Updates: https://wiki.haacksnetworking.org/doku.php?id=computing:roundcube Latest Updates: https://wiki.haacksnetworking.org/doku.php?id=computing:mailserver It’s been 5 years since I switched full time to my own email server. When I first built it, I was overtaken by the enormity of migrating all the emails, creating all the new accounts, and building two more servers for the other two domains I used for…

Leveraging Dedicated Hosting by Pebble Host

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//backupnode// Latest Updates: https://wiki.haacksnetworking.org/doku.php?id=computing:backupnode As I discussed in the last post, the sudden server failure and/or link failure that happened a month ago were a source of concern for me. After all, in addition to having my own infra there and that of my clients, I also volunteer and host floss instances of the PubGLUG…

Virtualization stack growing pains and PeerTube Hype!

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//peertube// Latest Updates: https://wiki.haacksnetworking.org/doku.php?id=computing:peertube As part of the Haack’s Networking business, I run a virtualization stack on a Supermicro 6028U-TRTP+ Dual 8-core Xeon E5-2650 2.2Ghz, with 384GB RAM, which has 576 virtual CPUs to allocate, or 24*12*2, which is threads *cores*sockets. This host uses Debian and virsh+qemu and a collection of bash scripts to manage…

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