How to Set Up a Home Server with Public IP: A Detailed Guide

How to Set Up a Home Server with Public IP: A Detailed Guide

I have connected my home computer and server to a public IP and DDNS. With a public IP, what interesting and practical applications can we create? In this issue, we will briefly review them. For detailed tutorials on public access and the installation and configuration of home servers, interested viewers can check out previous videos.

Comprehensive Guide to Building a Home Server for Backup and More

Comprehensive Guide to Building a Home Server for Backup and More

Although there are many articles online about NAS and home servers, most focus on hardware choices and vendor-customized software experiences. Many friends spend a lot of time and effort setting up their NAS after purchasing it, only to find that the actual experience is average, even less satisfying than directly using services from large companies, … Read more

An Easy-to-Use Open Source Home Server Management Tool

An Easy-to-Use Open Source Home Server Management Tool

Hello everyone, I am TJ A programmer who aspires to recommend 10,000 open source projects and tools Hello everyone, I am TJ. I believe many readers, like me, use idle devices or specialized equipment at home to play with servers. So how to conveniently manage server applications is a pressing need, today I would like … Read more

Building a Home Server from Scratch: A Comprehensive Guide

Building a Home Server from Scratch: A Comprehensive Guide

During this week, while scrolling through Douyin, I was unexpectedly shown a lot of information about home NAS servers. As I browsed, I thought about setting up a home server myself to remotely transfer some files and host a website. It would be much better than the Tencent Cloud server I purchased four years ago, … Read more

Complete Guide to the Shiguang Dock N3: A Versatile NAS for Downloading, Home Server, and Cloud Integration

Complete Guide to the Shiguang Dock N3: A Versatile NAS for Downloading, Home Server, and Cloud Integration

Hi everyone, I am Xiao Shi Jun When it comes to NAS, the first reaction for many is that it’s expensive and hard to use, but the Shiguang Dock N3 is designed to address these pain points. It is user-friendly and cost-effective, a lightweight NAS under 500 yuan that can back up photos and files … Read more

The Ultimate Home Server Operating System: Unraid from Scratch

The Ultimate Home Server Operating System: Unraid from Scratch

When building a home server, choosing the right operating system can be overwhelming. Many options are either too complex to set up and manage, or too limited to tweak according to your needs. After years of experimentation—from setting up a basic, headless Ubuntu server from scratch, to trying user-friendly options like CasaOS, and even dabbling … Read more

How to Build Your Personal Home Server

How to Build Your Personal Home Server

Previously, I shared a lot of content about “home servers,” but some friends feedback that the information was too scattered, leading to many questions after reading. Therefore, I organized the entire process of building a home server and shared my experiences with everyone: Step 1: Choose Hardware The threshold for a personal server is lower … Read more

Building a Home Server: Essential Hardware List

Building a Home Server: Essential Hardware List

Many people have left comments asking about my progress in building a home server. Thank you all for your concern! Over the past two months, I have changed jobs and cities, adapting to the environment and adjusting my mindset, which has been quite tiring. Today, I took some time to sort out my needs and … Read more

A Powerful Open Source Home Server Management Tool

A Powerful Open Source Home Server Management Tool

Many readers, like myself, might utilize idle devices or specialized equipment at home to set up servers. The need for convenient management of server applications is a hard requirement. Today, I would like to recommend a related open-source project: Tipi. Tipi is a management tool suitable for personal home servers, integrating many services (such as … Read more

Building a Low-Cost Home Storage Server: Part One

Building a Low-Cost Home Storage Server: Part One

This article documents the process of building a backup server. Introduction This year, I considered building a dedicated machine for data backup. Firstly, due to increased travel demands this year, the historical devices have been used for several years, and I need a newer device to take over; secondly, I want to verify the reliability … Read more