Home server guides, tutorials, tips and tricks. Topics covered include file servers, web servers, network storage, and download servers on Linux or Ubuntu systems.
Server storage monitoring with Monit allows you to keep a check on your home server or web server storage space. Monit is an automatic monitoring, maintenance, and repair utility for Unix systems. If the resource usage is high Monit will send you an email alert. You can then examine and … read more
Out of the blue SickRage did not start on my server and displayed “ImportError No module named helper.encoding”. Upon investigation I found that a bad update may have broken SickRage. How did I know it was broken in the first place? My recently setup Monit system monitoring software notified me … read more
System load monitoring with Monit allows you to keep a check on your home server or web server. Monit is an automatic monitoring, maintenance, and repair utility for Unix systems. If the resource usage is high Monit will send you an email alert. You can then examine and resolve any … read more
In this post, I will show you how to install Monit on Ubuntu to monitor the health and status of your home server. I just finished building my new 2016 HTPC-NAS Combo system. It runs Ubuntu Server with several apps including: Webmin, SickRage, CouchPotato, Transmission, SABnzbd, ShellInABox, and more. My … read more
There is an updated version of this post: 30 Best SSH Clients for Windows [2022]: Free and Paid I thought I was pretty happy with PuTTY as my Windows SSH client but these 10 best SSH clients made me rethink. And I am no longer using PuTTY for SSH on … read more
You probably have heard about the new name taken by Media Browser this year, along with several modifications that gave way to what is now Emby. Despite of its long run prior to its name change, there is still much to be said about this interesting open software application. If you … read more
This post shows you how to install MySQL Server on Ubuntu. MySQL (My Structured Query Language) is an relational database management system that is widely used to store information (most commonly for websites). Several web applications such as WordPress, Drupal, MyBB, phpBB, etc. use MySQL to store data. It is … read more
If you’ve installed Plex Media Server on Windows Operating Systems in the past, then you shouldn’t have any problems figuring out how to install Plex on Windows 10. This article is aimed at those who want to know how to get Plex on Windows and have never installed it, or those that … read more
Don’t have an extra PC laying around, no problem, just run a Ubuntu home server on VirtualBox VM. I have been pumping out VirtualBox tutorials over the last two months. Some have asked me if VirtualBox is somehow related to HTPCs. This post will answer that question. This post is … read more