Portainer – Update to New Version

For people that followed my walk through on installing and setting up Docker, Docker Compose and Portainer on a new Ubuntu Server, I covered how to do…

Radarr – Movie Management Server

Radarr is a movie collection manager for Usenet and BitTorrent users. It can monitor multiple RSS feeds for new movies and will interface with clients and indexers…

IT Tools – Handy tools for developers

The other day, I came across this post from MariusHosting about a self hosted docker container that had built in tools for IT developers. After checking out…

Docker Container to Automatically Check-in to Southwest Flight

When I was on a recent trip, I flew Southwest Airlines. If you have fly Southwest, you know they have a system to check you into the…

Sonarr – TV Show Management Server

Sonarr is a PVR for Usenet and BitTorrent users. It can monitor multiple RSS feeds for new episodes of your favorite shows and will grab, sort and…

Transmission over Private Internet Access (PIA) – Bittorrent Client over VPN

Transmission is a powerful and open source bittorrent client that can run in a container. Torrenting is often associated with illegal activity however it can be used…

Jackett – Indexer for Tracker Sites

Jackett works as a proxy server: it translates queries from apps (Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr) into tracker-site-specific http queries, parses the html response, then sends results back to…

Things I do after installing Ubuntu Server

This will be a basic configuration tutorial on the steps I take after doing a clean install of Ubuntu Server. This could be on a physical PC,…

Installing Ubuntu Server 22.04.1 LTS on a Raspberry Pi 4

Installation First, we need to download the “Raspberry Pi Imager” and install it on the PC you are using to set everything up and manage your systems….

Automatically Mount a Windows Share on a Linux Server

On my network, I prefer to us Windows File Servers when sharing any files because of my use of it in the past as part of my…