Geo-blocking with SWAG

SWAG can support MaxMind databases which are used to provide IP Geolocation and Online Fraud Prevention. It was initially tougher to setup but since end of 2021, it's now integrated through Linuxserver mods system. Let's dig into it!

Block malicious connections with CrowdSec as Intrusion Prevention System on top of SWAG

CrowdSec is a collaborative Intrusion Prevention System which make it overly powerful compared to Fail2Ban and it also provides the capability to share your setup across multiple hosts!

Get the most out of your SWAG with a dashboard!

The LSIO team has released sometimes ago a dashboard to monitor what is happening on your SWAG, here is how to implement it!

Setup SWAG to safely expose your self-hosted applications to the internet

SWAG is a rebirth of letsencrypt docker image, a full fledged web server and reverse proxy that includes Nginx, Php7, Certbot (Let's Encrypt client) and Fail2ban.

How to mount an encrypted Google Drive folder with rclone

The objective of this tutorial is to mount a folder on your server to store content without thinking about storage capacity. Everything on this folder is going to be, on the fly, encrypted and pushed to Google Drive. It comes also with caching!

FreshRSS: A free self-hosted RSS aggregator

You waste too much time to visit every single day your favorite websites? You care about privacy and don't want any website to know your preferences? You don't want to miss any GitHub release from your favorites software? No worries! FreshRSS can solve all your problems!

Monitor temperature with a Raspberry Pi and Grafana/InfluxDB on Docker

This article will detail all the hardware and software I have used to monitor the temperatures from a fridge and freezer to ensure they never go crazy. It comes with notifications as well in case of issues.

How to create healthchecks for Docker containers

How to create and manage healthchecks in your Docker compose stack and restart your containers if they are unhealthy.

Speedtest-Tracker: Continuously track your internet speed

Today, I'm presenting to you an interesting project from henrywhitaker3 on GitHub called Speedtest-Tracker. In few words, this is a self-hosted and always-on speed test solution.

The Lounge: The self-hosted web IRC client

The Lounge is the perfect solution for you if you are looking for an "Always connected" and self-hosted IRC client.

Docker linuxserver/rutorrent deprecated, what I have done!

The LinuxServer team has deprecated their image linuxserver/rtorrent/rutorrent due to a lack of maintainers! I will explain in this article what I have done to replace this image.

Why is my computer automatically leaving sleep mode after few seconds?

I recently faced a problem with my computer, every time I was setting it in sleep mode it was waking up automatically after few seconds. As I had no explanation at the first sight, I started to dig and I learn few things.

Routing Docker traffic through a VPN container

I'm using a VPN for years now but I recently decided to route the traffic of some of my container through a VPN connection to by-pass some country-specific restrictions and to enhance my privacy.

Install Wireguard on your Synology NAS

WireGuard is a new, modern and open-source VPN protocol. You might have heard about it as it has been merge a exactly a year ago in the Linux core.

Generate a Let's Encrypt wildcard certificate on Synology with Docker and Cloudflare

Following my setup of AdGuard Home, I found out it can manage DNS-over-HTTPS and DNS-over-TLS but it needs valid SSL certificates for that purpose.

AdGuard Home: A world without ads and trackers!

You might have heard about Ublock Origin or PiHole, let me introduce to you AdGuard, and especially AdGuard Home!

Give your host access to Docker containers with macvlan

Here is a trick you can use if you want to give your host access to some of your containers using a macvlan. I had to use this trick to setup AdGuard Home on my Synology NAS to be able to use this DNS from the NAS itself.

Theme.park: Custom themes for your favorite apps!

Theme.park is a Github project which propose a collection of of themes/skins for most of your favorites apps!

Filebrowser: The ultimate self-hosted server browser

For a long time, I've been looking for a way to replace my Synology file browser (DS File) with something more user friendly. After browsing DockerHub, GitHub and all my bookmarks, I found File Browser!

Get the IP address of your Docker containers

Have you ever looked for the local network IP address of one of your Docker container? Trying to connect to it from another one?