Introduction WireGuard released their official iOS app today, and I wasted no time jumping on setting up a WireGuard server at home (based mostly on this guide). This is not going to be a tutorial, but instead, I’m going to talk about why WireGuard is a game-changer. OpenVPN drawbacks For years, I’ve used OpenVPN to …
Read moreI just setup WireGuard, and I’ll never go back to OpenVPN
Introduction In March of 2018, Let’s Encrypt (the free Certificate Authority) announced they added support for wildcard certificates through the upgraded ACMEv2 protocol. I’ve been hosting most of my services on subdirectories (e.g., loganmarchione.com/rss) but have been wanting to move them to subdomains (e.g., rss.loganmarchione.com), and thought this was the perfect chance to do just …
Read moreLet’s Encrypt wildcard certificates with Certbot on Nginx
Introduction In my last post, I talked about setting up an ODROID-HC2 as a NAS using OpenMediaVault. I have that up and running, and I’ve also written a few scripts to backup my data to a few of the SMB shares. Now, I need to get that data shipped offsite to an external location to …
Introduction I’ve been doing some work on my homelab that I haven’t documented here. I recently decommissioned my Raspberry Pi 3 that was running my Unifi controller, Dokuwiki, and Network UPS Tools (NUT). I replaced the RPi3 with an Intel i3 NUC with 12GB RAM and a Crucial 2.5″ SSD. I chose to use Proxmox …
Recently, I’ve been using Graylog for log management on my home network. Graylog is enterprise log management that is 100% open source. It collects logs from almost any device and allows you to visualize and search through the data. Graylog offers the option to setup geolocation for IP addresses, which is really helpful. To map …