Posts about Servers

Install Kimai2 in Unraid for time tracking

Time tracking is essential for freelancers, small businesses, and other critical use cases. I have a full time job and do a bunch of consulting and programming on the side

Unraid

Installing MQTT in Unraid

I use MQTT for all of the sensors in my Home Automation setup. It runs on my home server and all of my devices/sensors connect to it to publish

Servers

Adding Redis as cache for Nextcloud in Unraid

I recently added Redis as a cache for my Nextcloud instance to increase it's performance. This has mainly reduced MySQL database queries and cleared up some errors I was getting

Node-RED

Restarting crashed game server containers with Node-RED

Ever have a game server lock up but not fully crash so it doesn't trigger a restart? I've been having this issue recently with my Sven Co-op server and I

Game Servers

Speed up fastdl for game servers by utilizing CloudFlare's Free CDN

Various game servers use a setting called fastdl that lets the game clients download server files from a web server instead of the game server. This can drastically improve download

Home Assistant

Installing Home Assistant in Unraid

I've received questions about how to install Home Assistant in Unraid as well as what the best method to install it is. I hope this post answers these questions and

Node-RED

Tracking game server stats using Node-RED, InfluxDB, and Grafana

Tracking server statistics can be extremely handy and I just haven't come across many great options for game servers. There are free options like GameTracker but their tracker only queries

Unraid

Graphing PowerEdge r710 power usage using Telegraf, InfluxDB & Grafana

Being able to monitor how much power a server is utilizing over a period of time can be extremely handy. In this post I will show how I handled this using Grafana for graphing, Telegraf for gathering data from the iDRAC6 (over IPMI), and InlufxDB for storage.

Hosting

My Unraid Home Server Setup

I've been using Unraid for years now. Before that I was using just a plain Ubuntu Server OS on the same machine. Once I finally did the switch to Unraid

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