Linux   Linux – Simple DNS server using DNSmasq



This article offers a 5 min howto about configuring your own DNS server (perhaps for your company or maybe for your home network) using DNSmasq. Obviously, only the surface is covered on this post.

Given my router does not allow me to add host entries for local DNS resolution, I decided to use DNSMasq on one of my internal network … Read more

Home Server icon   Home Server (9) – Upgrade HP Microserver Gen8 CPU



Im using my Microserver Gen8 a lot and, sometimes the poor performance of the CPU is noted (when showing galleries with many images for example). So I decided to replace it by another better one.

CPU model to choose

I chose the cpu model based on this resource

Those are compatible CPU with different performances prices and all of them … Read more

Home Server icon   Home Server (7) – Install Linux Debian virtual machine in ESX



In this 7th post of the Home Server series, after having configured a SSD drive, a working ESX environment and the RAID disks, let’s create our first virtual machine based on Debian Linux.

For the goal we want to achieve (hosting a web server, our personal files, personal streaming server, …) we do not even need the graphic … Read more

Home Server icon   Home Server (4) – Install SSD to HP Microserver Gen8



Although it is not essential I strongly encourage you to install an SSD disk to your HP Microserver Gen8 to host the system you want to run. I will use it for a VMWare ESX and the virtual machines that will create in it. As I said in the previous post, since the prices are more than affordable, the price/performance … Read more

Home Server icon   Home Server (3) – First steps configuring HP Microserver Gen8



Third post of the Home Server series in which I explain how I built my own server.
Visit the first post for details about the objectives of the project.

Maybe you have decided to have your own server and already you are owner of any model as HP Microserver Gen8. Surely there are many more to be done, but theseRead more

Home Server icon   Home Server (2) – Hardware to buy list



In this second post of the “Home Server” series I show you a list of the hardware I have used. Not all of them are mandatory, but depending on the performance you want to achieve it is interesting to use all of the recommended.

HP Microserver Gen8

The main protagonist of the project. These servers stand out because they offer Read more