Today, on a whim, I wanted to upgrade my idle server's PVE 7.4-17 to the latest PVE 8.1, mainly to test the waters for my Intel CPU mini PC. After all, production equipment shouldn't be upgraded lightly; it would be a disaster if it failed. I'll skip the previous steps, since...
Preface: In the previous article (Setup), we successfully deployed the server and agent of WGCloud (see article: Home Data Center Series: Deploying Your Own O&M Monitoring System via WGCloud (Part 1): Setup). After running it for a while, finally...
Preface: Actually, at first thought, there seem to be many online solutions for folder synchronization. After searching for a while and combining my own experience, I simply divide these related solutions into 3 categories: 1. Single-app solutions, represented by Sync Folders, within the local area network...
Preface: I have been constantly thinking and practicing how to make full use of the 2-core 2G 4Mbps bandwidth Tencent Cloud Lighthouse server that I had to spend a fortune to buy for ICP filing, running some important applications that need to run 24 hours a day or hot standby systems for some critical applications (to prevent home data...
1 Preface: For the real-time health monitoring and alerting of my multi-site network, I have always been using the combination of uptime-kuma + bark server (for specific setup and configuration, see: Docker Series: Building a Message Push Service Based on Bark Server...
Preface: I am now used to two deployment methods for Nginx: BT Panel and Docker. Among them, Nginx on BT Panel is mainly used for SSL decryption and reverse proxy, focusing on convenience (for detailed configuration steps, see: Linux Panel Series: Configuring Reverse Proxy and Using Non-443 Port...
Preface: I probably started playing with smart homes right when Xiaomi first launched them, so I should be considered one of the earliest adopters. I bought whatever they released (I even replaced all the regular light switches in my house with remote-controlled ones, though they were mostly broken in less than 3 years...), so I have a huge pile of Xiaomi...
Solution Background: As various ISPs increasingly tighten public IPv4 addresses (Chengdu Telecom requires a package of 399 RMB or more plus a 100 RMB monthly service fee to get a public IPv4 address, and for old users who already have a public IPv4 address, even if they upgrade their package now, the public IPv4 address is highly likely to...
Preface: Because of the fundamental differences between the IPv6 and IPv4 protocols, in the future trend where public IPv6 IPs become mainstream, some long-standing traditional technologies that existed on IPv4 have lost their utility: such as port mapping, NAT, etc. In the home data center public IPv6... that I am currently conceiving...
Preface: In previous articles, I deployed OpenWrt using a virtual machine (see: OpenWrt Soft Router Series: Detailed Tutorial on PVE Deployment of OpenWrt (23.05.2)). In addition to this method, you can also install OpenWrt directly on bare metal or use d...