The purpose of this page is for me to discuss the services that I have deployed and are now a critical part of my daily life. For a full list of services check out my Services page. I have been running a homelab since 2017 so I have played with a lot of programs and have opinions about the pros and cons of all of them.
Quartz 4
This website would be nothing without Quartz. It is what allows me to create a simple website from nothing other than my Obsidian notes.
Caddy
Caddy is what allows me to serve multiple services from my single residential IP address. A reverse Proxy is something that everyone should play with and know how to use when starting their professional career. I have only scratched the surface of caddy and reverse proxy and hope to get better and learn more as my projects get larger and more ambitious.
Uptime Kuma
This is yet another amazing open source tool that allows me to monitor the status of all of my services in one dashboard. It will even send me a push notification when one of my services goes offline unexpectedly. It also lets me post a message to my friends when something like the Minecraft server goes offline so I don’t get bombarded with messages of people asking Hey is XYZ down?.
Syncthing
I cant praise Syncthing enough. Its one of the longest services that I have been continuously using. Since I got my first serve. It has gotten me through both High school and now College. I have a blog post about Accessing all my files from every device using Syncthing and its a great read for anyone interested in using it.
PiHole
About 2 years ago I gave my PiHole a list of malware and trackers to block and its been super easy to maintain as long as you update the “gravity” (horrible name). One thing that I use it for more than protection is its ability to configure local DNS records extremely easily. It allows me to enter something like NAS.hexadual.lcl in my address bar, file explorer and even NFS mounts.