Recently, a small group of really great computer guys invited me to their private IRC server. I followed several of their blogs, and was really honored that they would ask me to join them. It's a quiet group of just hanging out, chatting, and a few discussions here and there …
Sometimes NextCloud needs to run a script or command in the background. According to their website guide, you can do this several different ways, such as AJAX, webcron, cron, or with systemd. I'm not an expert, and I didn't want to re-invent the wheel, so I just followed the guide …
Lately, I've been doing a lot of posts about my NextCloud server and the apps that go with them. One thing I noticed though, is that the NextCloud app on my phone will not let me take a screenshot. I didn't know how to get around this, so I did …
Sort of just tying up all loose ends for the remainder of programs and apps I used on the phone and server to handle everything that was synced prior to using NextCloud. In the end, I ended up with less apps on my phone, and they all use the same …
One really important part of having a home server is making sure that your server is secure. I want to start this by saying, I am not a security expert. However, I found some great tools available to help me do this. One of the best tools out there is …
In the continuing effort to move away from corporate hosted services, and move towards self hosted services, I've switched to using a self-hosted version of NextCloud on my home server. With that, it allowed me to enabled a way to replace LinPhone with NextCloud Talk. Don't get me wrong, I …
Now that NextCloud is set up and running on my home server, it was time to start replacing my go-to apps and services that I was running before. One handy service that I was running on the old server setup was ulogger. ulogger is a great server with an excellent …
Now that I have a LAMP server set up at home, I'll need to install my own instance of NextCloud. For self hosting, they have three different sets of instructions on their website, depending on your needs. I went with manual installation on Linux, which you can find here. Your …
There are already a lot of great guides for setting up LAMP on your computer. For those who don't know, LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. One of the best I've seen was this one from Digital Ocean. Of course, in the last post I mentioned that I …
