I talked several times about how NextCloud upgrade paths are not that easy and how every upgrade has brought some kind of problems. During these holidays, I finally decided to take the stap and replace it. My NextCloud usage was quite simple: 1. Upload important files 2. Upload photos for…
Fixing fan noise from a hot P840 smart array. Update drivers, fix heat sink, clean server…
When renewing your SSL certificate the error "Internal Server Error" is a common one in Nginx Proxy Manager. This post covers the most common causes for this error and some less common one. Open ports, Landing page status and DNS challenges will be covered for NPM…
Today was another upgrade time. Nothing was out of the ordinary until I reached a node with an EOL ubuntu installed 23.04 (Lunar Lobster) which to my good luck went EOL yesterday! While we will mostly be following the steps from the guide EOLUpgrades I'll document the…
I've been running nextcloud 28 for some time now. Mostly because the last time I tried to upgrade it was a nightmare and I had to restore a backup... lucky me I had one to restore. Nextcloud documentation provides a few ways to update, one may even say…
As times go by one finds itself testing new software and realizing some apps that used to be useful are not anymore. Outs One of the first things I stopped trying to implement was Single sign-on with Authentik I quickly realized I didn't want to spend the time…
I help manage a Squad server, mods & admins use Battlemetrics for most of their needs and while Battlemetrics is a very well-thought-out tool is also too generic sometimes. While nothing is fully broken, there are a few things that can be improved. There's a console that allows…
A weekend of upgrades with some lesson learned while upgrading Proxmox, LXC, VM's and Nextcloud…