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Creating Your First Container

Software Installing Docker

We will be installing Portainer, an open-source web application that makes it easy to manage Dock...

Updated 3 months ago by metaphorraccoon

Graphic Card Integration

Software Installing Docker

Graphic cards handle images and videos much more efficiently than a traditional processor.  While...

Updated 3 months ago by metaphorraccoon

Power Management

Software Configuring Debian

This server will always be powered on so that it can respond to requests from the internet.  We ...

Updated 3 months ago by metaphorraccoon

Repositories

Software Configuring Debian

If you have the USB flash drive we created to install Debian plugged into the USB port, Debian ma...

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Installation

Reactive Resume •

Reactive Resume can be installed by following the Portainer guide for creating a new stack.  Lear...

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Installation

Flood • Setup & Configuration

Flood can be installed by following the Portainer guide for creating a new stack.  Learn about co...

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Managing Services

Services

Once you've decided which services you would like to have running on your server, you can use the...

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What is Docker?

Software

This software service runs on top of the operating system to create "virtual containers", each wi...

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Remote Backup

Monitoring & Maintenance Backup Solutions

Duplicati is a self-hosted service we can access through our browser that let's schedule backups....

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Local Backup

Monitoring & Maintenance Backup Solutions

You can never know when a hard drive will fail or a software update will cause your operating sys...

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File Sharing

Monitoring & Maintenance Network Access

We will be installing Samba, a protocol that allows us to share your files over the local network...

Updated 3 months ago by metaphorraccoon

Remote Desktop

Monitoring & Maintenance Network Access

We will be installing xrdp, a service that allows us to remotely access our computer over the loc...

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EFI & BIOS

Hardware Firmware Configuration

Computer hardware has evolved over the years and the industry stardard have continued to shift....

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Single-Board Computers

Hardware Firmware Configuration

The Raspberry Pi computer series do not have a battery source to ensure that firmware settings ar...

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Connecting Services to the Reverse Proxy

World Wide Web Web Domain Name

How to edit the SWAG configuration files to connect a service to the internet using the pre-made ...

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Domain Name System

World Wide Web Web Domain Name

We need to configure a DNS service to handle the translation of our domain name into the Public I...

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Connecting Your Personal Server to the Internet

World Wide Web Router Configuration

We will need to set our router to forward any requests it gets through port 80 and port 443 to ou...

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What is the Cloud?

Your Personal Cloud

The first "modern" general-purpose computers, ENIAC and Colossus, were created in the early–mid 2...

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Next Steps

SWAG

Setup Domain Name System

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Getting a Domain Name

World Wide Web Web Domain Name

Before you can connect your server to the World Wide Web and access it through a Web browser, you...

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