This blog will show you how to use dynamic DNS with Cloudflare. The purpose of dynamic DNS, DDNS, is to update your public DNS provider in the case the service you host is behind a changing public IP. Without DDNS, once your public IP changes, the service behind that public IP won’t be reachable via …
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Lighttpd webserver on Ubuntu
For this project, I needed a small webserver to host a single web page. After some research, I chose to install Lighttpd webserver on Ubuntu. As of yet, I don’t have an opinion of what webserver is better or worse for a single web page. I searched throughout the web to find guides on everything …
Deploy Ubuntu on VMware Free
How to deploy Ubuntu on VMware for free. In this guide, I’m describing how I deploy an Ubuntu server on VMware ESXi free version. The goal of this project is to have a place to host various application from home for *free*. Of course I already had bought the physical servers I use, pay for …
Home Lab NTP Server
How to create your own home lab NTP server? While I’m not an expert on NTP (network time protocol), I decided to create my own NTP server for my home network. This was for multiple reasons: To learn about NTP servers and clients.Take the load of NTP off of my pfsense home router.Audit my home …
Update ESXi from command line
First, ensure you have the right ESXi “offline bundle” from VMware. In my example, I have a Dell server. In order to update ESXi we need the DellEMC custom image from VMware. At the time of this blog, the most update to date image in the 6 series is 6.7 update 3. Next, upload the …