Asked widely, and the answers sort into four groups with a clear boundary between them. The provider's box, untouched. Fine for most people, and the honest default. Where it stops: no control over name resolution, weak…
Everyone's list has the same five media services on it. These are the ones that quietly get used every week and rarely get mentioned. A recipe manager that imports from a URL. Strips the life story, keeps the…
The complaint comes up constantly why is there no simple, free, self hosted place to put files, the way there is for photos or media. Having run most of the candidates for months at a time, I think the complaint is real…
About a dozen services on one box. It all works. I have not touched it since spring. Last week something needed changing and I spent an evening working out where the configuration lived, which of two reverse proxy…
About a dozen of the services on my NAS were installed from a community app catalogue rather than the built in one. The catalogue now fails to sync the UI just reports that it could not refresh: and the project behind…
My NAS has run a couple of services as plugins for years. I went to install another one today and the installer fails immediately, saying that a specific base release was not found. The existing plugins still run. It is…
A small server has filled up. I can see the partition is at capacity, and beyond obvious things like old downloads I do not know what is actually taking the space or what I am allowed to remove. I am wary of deleting…
I am trying to deploy a self hosted file sync and collaboration suite on my NAS. The deploy starts, the app sits in a deploying state for several minutes, and then it goes back to stopped. The UI tells me the deployment…
I put a self hosted app behind my reverse proxy so I can reach it at a real hostname with a real certificate instead of an IP and a port number. It now refuses to load and shows a message about being accessed through an…
I put a self hosted application behind my reverse proxy. It loads, I can sign in, and the pages work but the interface repeatedly shows a banner saying the connection has been lost and it is trying to reconnect. The…
A widely reported vulnerability in a Java logging library has me trying to work out whether my servers are affected, and I am finding that a surprisingly hard question to answer. The machines run a mainstream Linux…
After changing the network configuration on my home server, operations started failing with an error about being unable to determine the default interface, and I can no longer reach the web UI from another machine on…
I am trying to mount a remote storage provider as a directory on my home server so other services can read from it as if it were local. The copy and sync commands work perfectly, I can list and transfer files, so the…
I want to share a directory from my host into a virtual machine using the shared filesystem option in the VM manager, rather than going over the network. When I add the share and start the machine, it fails with an…
I have a dataset left over from an experiment that I want gone. Deleting it fails: the system tells me it is busy, or that it has dependent clones or holds. Nothing is obviously using it. It is not shared, no…
I deployed a self hosted app on my server and set an admin username and password in the deployment form. The app comes up, I get the login page, and the credentials I typed into that form are rejected. I have redeployed…
My server syncs to a cloud storage provider on a schedule. It has worked for months. A couple of hours ago uploads started failing, the transfers begin and then error out, and retrying makes no difference. Downloads and…
When I connect to a machine with it prompts me for a password interactively. I want to run this from a script, so the prompt is a problem: the script stops and waits. Is there a flag that takes the password on the…
I have been running a few lightweight containers on my NAS using a community tool built on the system's own container primitives. It let me have proper persistent environments rather than application containers. That…
My NAS appliance has a small internal eMMC module in addition to the drive bays. The bays are full of the disks I want as storage, so putting the operating system on one of them would cost me a bay I cannot spare. The…
I am trying to mount an external drive and the command fails with a message listing several possibilities at once wrong filesystem type, bad option, bad superblock, missing codepage or helper program. That reads like…
I want a bridge so my virtual machines appear on the LAN with their own addresses rather than behind NAT. The graphical network settings offer no way to create one. Every guide I find is several years old and describes…
I put a filtering DNS resolver on my network and now local devices cannot be reached by name. Before, my router answered for local names; now everything asks the filter, which knows nothing about my house. I have seen…
A self hosted application I run on my NAS showed a notice that its default storage location is being deprecated and I should move the data. I found the setting, changed it, and the application came back up without any…
I want my server to use a public resolver rather than the one my hosting provider hands out. On older systems I would edit , restart a service and be done. On a current release that no longer works. My edits survive for…