Running Jellyfin for Your Own Media Library
Stream your own movies and shows with Jellyfin using Docker Compose, hardware-accelerated transcoding, metadata, and a secure Caddy reverse proxy.
Self-Hosting8 min read
NetBay journal
Guides for operators
Practical guides for Linux, containers, CI/CD, self-hosting, and running VPS infrastructure from Netbay Engineering.
499 articles · 24 topics
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Terraform Basics: Providers, State, and Plan
Start with Terraform by wiring a provider, declaring resources, and learning how plan plus state turn infrastructure changes into a safe diff.
API & Automation7 min read
Expanding LVM Logical Volumes Without Downtime
Grow a VPS volume group and an online ext4 or XFS logical volume with pvresize and lvextend -r, plus the caveats that make shrinking a different sport.
Hardware & Performance5 min read
Serve GGUF Models with llama-server on a VPS
Run llama-server as a long-lived CPU process, bind GGUF weights to localhost, and expose chat routes on an Intel Xeon Platinum VPS without a GPU.
AI Infrastructure8 min read
Services, Labels, and Selectors: How Traffic Reaches Your Pods
Understand labels and selectors so you can build Services that route traffic to exactly the right pods, and avoid common misrouting bugs.
Kubernetes6 min read
Signing Webhook Deliveries So Clients Can Verify Them
Cryptographically sign webhook payloads with HMAC and give clients a safe verification path to reject forged or replayed deliveries quickly.
API & Automation6 min read
PowerShell Essentials for Day-2 Windows VPS Admin
Inventory, patch, services, event logs, and scheduled tasks from PowerShell. These cmdlets cover day-2 Windows VPS work without opening the GUI.
Windows8 min read
mysqldump vs mariadb-dump and a Restore Drill
Pick mariadb-dump or mysqldump on purpose, schedule a logical backup, and run a restore drill on a second host before you ever need it in an incident.
Databases9 min read
Redis maxmemory and Eviction Policies by Workload
Set maxmemory before Redis eats the VPS, then pick allkeys-lru, volatile-ttl, or noeviction so the eviction policy matches cache, session, or queue data.
Databases8 min read
Alertmanager: Page Yourself Without Alert Fatigue
Wire Prometheus to Alertmanager with grouping, inhibit rules, and a for duration so a single VPS pages you for real faults, not for every blip.
Observability9 min read
systemd Restart=always for Python App Services
Ship a Python app as a systemd unit with Restart=always, or use a socket unit, so the process comes back after crashes without a babysitter.
App Deployment7 min read
Docs Q&A Agent Over a Markdown Tree on Disk
Index a runbook markdown tree on the VPS and answer ops questions with file-and-heading citations, refusing anything the docs do not actually say.
AI Agents8 min read