I'm Eric, an Engineer who's passionate about building. I write on the development of awesome systems to automate your life and support internet independence.

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Creating a Backup Pipeline for a Self-Hosted Server

One struggle that self-hosted server owners will inevitably come across is how to manage backups in a semi-automated and easily maintainable way. The guide will show you how to use Cronicle and restic to create automated backups of the data on your self-hosted server in a remote location using Rclone.

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Configuring a Remote Backup Solution Using restic and Rclone

One of the biggest downsides (by far) with self-hosting content on a server is redundancy, or having multiple copies of your data located on multiple machines (preferably in separate physical locations). The guide will show you how to configure restic and Rclone with an external data store to create backups

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Scheduling Maintenance Tasks Using Cronicle in Docker

Being able to manage a server remotely is a great thing to strive for, as it allows you to check in or troubleshoot things from anywhere in case something goes wrong. Even though it certainly is possible to schedule and manage maintenance tasks (such as automated backups) using Linux'

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Remote SSH into a Host Using Cloudflared Tunnel

Cloudflared Tunnels are a great option for accessing services on a self-hosted home server remotely, but what about accessing the server directly? In this short guide, I'll show how to set up remote SSH on a self-hosted server running a Cloudflared Tunnel so that you can access its

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Self-Hosting

Reverse Proxy Using Cloudflared Argo Tunnel and Docker Compose

A Cloudflared Tunnel is a great option to reverse proxy traffic to a home server. Not only is it free and production-ready, it is also very easy to set up and configure. On top of this, it is the easiest option for setting up a publicly available website over a

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Self-Hosting

A Quick Intro To My Home Server

One of my biggest, longest-running personal projects is my personal home server. This is a project that I've used to replace closed-source, corporate-owned cloud services in my digital life (e.g. PhotoPrism has replaced Google Photos), and also to develop and host some brand new automation systems (such

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