Domain Name Service (DNS)

A Domain Name Service (DNS) allows your E-Mail and Web Server to use a name instead of an IP Address, so other people can find you by name. Some Internet Service Providers (ISP) will change your IP address every few months in a residential environment.

E-Mail

Electronic Mail (E-Mail) is a way to type letters onto a computer and send them to other people. These other people's computers will then use E-Mail to read your letters. It is an electronic version of the Post Office.

E-Mail Relay

The following diagrams are what this document will accomplish. The challenge is to obtain and keep a good reputation that other E-Mail handlers around the world will accept. Otherwise your messages will be dumped in the trash can (SPAM) or sent back to you (bounced).

Home Assistant

This is a web based interface for automating things around the home. It can monitor doors, windows, motion detection and turn electrical things on and off.

Linux in the House

The amazing things you can do with computer software in your home, ya GNU?

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Matrix Messaging

Matrix is a messaging system you can on your server. It allows your to send messages to a phone/watch from command line on the server. It is useful with HomeAssistant for monitoring the house.

Media Management (audio/video)

This is where I manage Music and Television files.

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Miniflux News Reader

Miniflux is an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) server that will fetch and display RSS feeds from other websites. Also known as a news reader.

Mirror Disks

Mirroring disks on Linux is simple and prudent to ensure your data survives hardware, software and human failures. All data from one disk is duplicated on another disk and if any one disk fails, you will never know it. So it is important after setting up to monitor …

Network Attached Storage (NAS)

The NAS provides a safe place to store important data. Set this up before running E-Mail or a cloud service because it is the best place to put important files. If an E-Mail server crashes you still have all your E-Mail files on the NFS (see …