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This article will cover installing Docker and Portainer on a Proxmox VM, we created the VM in the previous article. There’s a bit of a shift in the home server Proxmox world over to using containers rather than Docker. Personally,…
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Creating a Basic VM on Proxmox
In this article I’ll be creating a new virtual machine that will run Docker. This machine will eventually host a number of services for my family such as a music server and photo viewing, but that’s for another day. BIOS…
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Installing Pi-Hole on Proxmox
In this article I’ll be installing Pi-Hole on Proxmox. Pi-Hole is a DNS sinkhole or blackhole that can effectively block ads and other unwanted content. It works by replacing your usual DNS server with Pi-Hole and then dishing up non-routable…
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Building a NAS Using Proxmox – Part 3
This is the third article in the series about using Proxmox as a NAS. For this article to make sense you’ll need to have a container set up and sharing host files via Samba similar to shat was set up…
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Building a NAS Using Proxmox – Part 2
The setup described in this article will work if you have a followed the first article in this series however it is not an optimal setup. Once you’ve read the next article in this series you’ll understand the weaknesses in…
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Building a NAS Using Proxmox – Part 1
The first thing many people do with their home server is set up file sharing. If you’re running an OS such as TrueNAS this is really simple, but I’m running Proxmox so that I can also easily run virtual machines…
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Making Spell Checking Work in Firefox
I can’t believe this doesn’t just work out of the box 100% of the time but apparently spell checking doesn’t work in Firefox unless you have more than one setting correctly configured at the same time. This does not seem…
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Automatically Scrubbing ZFS Under Proxmox
I thought this one was going to be a challenge to set up but it turns out it’s set up automatically to scrub the disks on the server Sunday of every month. The important files for this setup are: The…
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Understanding the Default Filesystem on Proxmox
When you install Proxmox it’s quite common to choose just a single local disk and let the installer use LVM to partition it. This turns the drive into a physical volume (PV) onto which the installer will create a single…
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Setting up SMART Monitoring in Proxmox
The aim of this article is to configure SMART monitoring in Proxmox and to send emails in the case anything untoward is found. You should already have the email system set up as per this earlier article. This article assumes…
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Setting up Email Notifications in Proxmox Using Gmail
Getting email notifications from Proxmox is important as you absolutely want to know what that disk fails at 3AM or if the backup decides it’s had enough and gives up. The first thing you need to check is that you…
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Building a Home Server with Proxmox – ZFS
The installation of Proxmox is well covered in official guide so I won’t cover that here. There really aren’t many choices to be made during install anyway. I installed the OS on a 1TB M.2 drive and I plan on…