In most of the configuration we terminate the SSL at the load balancer and use http connection from load balancer to the server when it is in internal network. But in some situation we needed SSL pass through such as if the server is handling the SSL certificates. For example, in my home network, I […]
Solving Proxmox LXC console blank issue
As I am recently upgrading my home network from simple Raspberry Pi to Proxmox based hypervisor network have got to explore many new things. This is one of the issue I couldn’t find an answer quickly so wanted to post here for anyone experiencing this. LXC containers are great way to virtualize / isolate services […]
Working with docker stack and iptables
After moving to new country, I am setting up my home network to bring some of containers back from the cloud to self hosting from home. But the problem with my new router is there is no port based routing either all or none by setting the self hosting server as default DMZ server will […]
My docker swarm setup
I am running my websites from my Raspberry Pi mini PC, and in this post, I am going to explain how I organize the apps and manage security using docker swarm network. In my setup I choose nginx container as webserver created on top of light weight alphine linux containers. This performs very well on […]
Performance comparison between Digital Ocean Droplet and Raspberry Pi 4
I am hosting all of my websites including this one in Raspberry Pi. Nearly 7 websites are running in a single Raspberry Pi 4 with 8Gb RAM. As am I am planning to move to a different country wanted to transfer my websites to cloud temporarily. As I was researching how it will be the […]
Running media server from Raspberry Pi
When you would like to use my Raspberry pi as much as possible instead of by special purpose devices then using it as file server combined with media server will be a great use case. Here I will explain how to setup your raspberry Pi as a media server in your network so that you […]
Running your private Docker registry from Raspberry Pi
If you are running docker containers in Raspberry pi like me, you might have experienced that many of the images available in the docker public hub will not run on the Raspberry Pi. So you will be creating the images again from the Dockerfile. Also there will be extra process to move images between different […]
How to use SSD for hosting on RPi?
Raspberry Pi 4 comes with improved faster USB 3.0 interface. So if you use SSD disks with Raspberry Pi 4 you will see significant improvement in the speed. The performance test shows at least 3 to 4 time faster for the apps when using SSD disk on the faster USB port with Raspberry Pi. So […]
Raspberry Pi as general purpose server
I am using Raspberry Pi as multi purpose server. It is been almost two years since since I have started using the Pi. I have started with RPi 3 then upgraded to RPi 4. I am using it as a media server, file server and web server etc. You are reading this blog and this […]