Practical Homelab

Author: Jerico

  • Philippine-based VPS

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    When I learned the term about multihoming, I revisited my interest again to have a VPS to setup as a VPN for my network. I wanted it to be hosted in the Philippines because of latency. Major hosting providers uses Singapore or Hong Kong to cater the PH market. But the latency is just too…

  • Audiobookshelf

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    Wow. This app mindblowingingly easy to install and use. This is for managing and consuming audiobooks. I actually gave up trying to manage my own audiobooks and subscribed to Audible instead. The issue is I only have phases on when I listen to audiobooks. It only recently started when I started driving everyday again to…

  • FreshRSS

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    Bigla kong na-miss yung Google Reader. I used to subscribe to blogs. Madami pa ring blogs ngayon but it’s hard to keep track unless may aggregator. I started looking for self-hosted solution na may similar user experience with Google Reader. Yung naka-open na yung articles but scroll to read lang. FreshRSS fits the bill. I’ve…

  • ArchiveBox

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    Spent an hour of my morning setting up ArchiveBox. I’ve set this up before but I forgot how to access it. It wasn’t even running. I saw that there was a docker-compose.yml already and I went to update Docker Compose in my Synology NAS and ran docker-composer up -d and it worked as it was…

  • Install docker-compose on Synology DSM

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  • Thinking of changing router

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    I’ve been considering changing my router from Omada’s R605 to something more configurable. Omada is great for managing switch and access points. Sobrang seemless mag-add ng bagong device. Routing-wise, it works naman pero biggest gripe ko yung detection ng WAN connection. It can only do it per minute. Kaya I’ve been looking to switch to…

  • USB to Ethernet Adaptors

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    I have quite a few mini-PC that has only a single gigabit port. I’ve been considering and researching how to expand those to have an extra port. One of those option was using a USB to Ethernet adaptor. Now, I’ve looked at this option before. Ang nakuha ko lang puro discouragement na hindi siya stable.…

  • Fixing Synology DSM Crashed Volume

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    One of my DSM virtual instance had a crashed volume. A crashed volume doesn’t necessarily mean lost data. It crashed for some reason and DSM suggests you to copy your data elsewhere before it becomes worst. However, my instance is a virtual machine using a network block storage device that has it’s own protection built-in.…

  • It took 4 days to add 2 volumes in my NAS

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    Grabe. I did not expect that it will take 4 days to add 2x 10TB volume to my NAS. Started at 2022-12-15 18:27:19 Finished at 2022-12-19 22:06:27 I also realized the importance of UPS. Between adding the volume and completion, there was 20 seconds of electric interruption. That would have risk data corruption kung namatay…

  • Increasing NAS storage take days

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    I’ve upgraded my family’s NAS to add another 2x 10TB drives. I added the drive 2 days ago. Up until now, it’s still in progress. I did not expect it’ll be this slow. Good thing, I’m not in a rush.