Nginx SSL pass through

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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