Hello World.
Welcome to Techservatory, a blog about self-hosting, learning Linux and tech enthusiasm in general. Most posts are step-by-step guides for things I've learned and implemented for own future reference. Maybe some of it will be helpful to you. If not, that's ok, it's still helpful for me. Either way, thanks for visiting!
Latest Blog Posts
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Using MergerFS to combine multiple hard drives into one unified media storage
My situation was simple -- I have on my home server a 2 TB hard drive for media storage that was filling up, and I wanted to add a second drive, but not have to keep track of which drive specific files were in. Enter mergerfs, an open source "union filesystem" that lets you merge multiple storage drives into one mount point. -
Set up Home Assistant Supervised on a Libre Computer Sweet Potato SBC
Home Assistant is an open source home automation solution that gives you local control over your smart home. It can also be run on Libre Computer's boards, but I ran into some issues following the official instructions from Libre, so here's how I got it working. -
Complete guide to self-hosting a website through Cloudflare Tunnel
In this guide I demonstrate how to self-host a static web blog and expose it to the internet via a Cloudflare tunnel -- which is how this website is reaching your eyeballs.
Latest Added Links
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Composerize
Tool that lets you paste in a docker run command and convert it into docker compose file syntax. You can do the reverse too with the decomposerize.com tool. -
Rsyncinator
Use a GUI to create complexe rsync commands to copy & paste directly into your terminal. -
JSON to YAML
A tool that lets you write either JSON or YAML and auto-convert it to the other format.