Category: Helpful Hints

Here is where you'll find any scraps of tech info I choose to share

Reverse Proxy (with Apache)

I did a little write-up on how I achieved reverse proxy nirvana with IIS a while ago now. It made things a lot nicer for me. Like, a lot. I have a few friends/colleagues/acquaintances who run Apache (I run IIS in my homelab environment, that’s the only reason I went with it), so I figured …

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Moving files to subfolders

It’s not uncommon for me to have to tidy up directories full of files by moving them to their own subfolders, named for each file. It’s become common enough that I wrote a little Powershell function to do it repeatedly. After saving the below script as a .psm1 file you’ll be able to open PS …

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Reverse Proxy (with IIS)

I run a lot of different pieces of software on my server. Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr… just to name a few. All of these different systems listen on different ports, and I got tired of having so many ports forwarded and so many different ports to remember. Enter: Reverse Proxy.

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Choosing a Plex Media Server

I get customers wanting to store media a lot nowadays, and I tend to steer them towards the Plex Media Server software. It has very good indexing capabilities, and a whole host of transcoding capabilities. There is other software available, but this one seems to be the best (at least in my opinion) that I’ve …

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Storage Pools?

DISCLAIMER: I did not design this fix, and credit to the source is at the end of this post. The information is helpful, and thus I feel it should be shared in order to be easier to find. I recently had a server 2012 R2 machine go dead in the water with a BSOD 0x00000CA, …

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