Keeping all the config data and the actual stored data away from the main OS drive makes for a headache free upgrade path when you accidentally kill your server, and you will kill the server at some point.

New sections to the website, many films watched and trying to read more just some of the highlights of yet another mostly uneventful month.

Once you’ve installed the Operating System on your laptop we need to secure it so it’s not so easy for someone to get into your data.

For the past few weekends, I’ve been working on a series of posts based on my attempts to build a homelab, while also focusing on staying alive and enriching what’s left of my soul.

I’m going to show you how to install Ubuntu Server on your old laptop that’s been collecting dust in your closet. Why? Well, for starters, you can use it as a personal cloud storage, a media server, a VPN server, a web server, or even a Minecraft server. The possibilities are endless.