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How to customise your Synology NAS with Docker, monitoring, backups.
Let’s Encrypt is great as it is free, but it also has downsides: (1)certificates need to be renewed every 90 days and (2) your internal servers need to be accessible. I was reluctant to use Let’s Encrypt for my internal...
The one downside with Let’s Encrypt has always been the limitation that for verification any internal server needed to open up ports. Using Cloudflare and acme.sh gives my old Synology DS1010+ new life with a proper SSL certificate (the acme.sh supports...
I previously blogged about my issues with the Calix 813-G FTTH router being complete rubbish. Despite having moved from a 20Mbps VDSL connection to a 50Mbps fibre connection, my throughput and latency with the Calix were actually worse and I even...
Since I recently replaced my Xtreamer Ultra 2 with a shiny Xtreamer Wonder Pro (warning: do not get the WonderPro, as Xtreamer has locked down firmwares, and you will not be able to upgrade to anything else), I decided to repurpose...
With Synology DSM 6.0 and upwards Docker is natively supported and this allows you to easily configure services without having to download or manually install services. The first step is to get Docker installed via the Synology Package Center: Once...
NZBGet is a great application to automate downloads. Synology has introduced with DSM 6.0 full Docker support which now makes it even easier to install and run any 3rd party application. The first step is to get Docker installed via the...
The latest version of Synology DSM introduces a Squid proxy which allows you to speed up web-browsing within your local LAN due to proxy-caching web fragments. By the looks of it, Synology still needs to improve on the admin functionality,...
With the recent release of Openelec which now ships with Kodi 14 Helix (formerly known as XBMC) I had to completely reinstall/format my Xtreamer due to the many underlying changes from XBMC to Kodi which caused quite a few plugin issues. The...
I recently recycled my hard-drives on my Synology DS1010+ as one of the drives started to fail. Migration of the drives was easy, but I did notice that I had file-system corruption when looking at dmesg: htree_dirblock_to_tree: bad entry in directory...
Synology has really outdone themselves with DSM 4.0: Although this is the first beta, it introduces a number of improvements with the most noticeable a completely revamped user interface which includes widgets and vast UI improvements over the desktop-style dashboard...
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