Hi there! It's been a hot minute, and most likely, this website is inaccessible right now due to SSL, and domain stuff. (not anymore as i fixed it while writing this draft somehow) Anyways, I've been working on this server, and I've decided to right a post about it.
The website:
Since I decided to reset all configs, I've been working on rebuilding every config. I finally got this running properly with blogger on the domain, and SSL. Now that I have the domain, I can make certain parts public. I have put certain parts of the site on the internet archive. At the moment, the website is currently a placeholder website, which is flying toasters taken from https://github.com/bryanbraun/after-dark-css, as i do not want to program a website for this at the moment. Apache virtual hosts are the main reasons why the sites don't work. I can't seem to figure out how to get these vhosts working. I've also been considering switching from apache, to nginx. Supposedly nginx is more preformant, and everyone nowadays uses it, but I'm not sure if it integrates well with my website panel, webmin, which i really like, as it's free, although virtualmin, which I think is based on webmin.
Docker!
Before, I was using just the ubuntu install for everything. Media stuff, game stuff, everything. With this new install of ubuntu for the server, I've decided to dockerize components. I've started with trying to add vs code server, then, began exploring more docker images, and added a couple docker images. Added some DNS, added Wireguard, some github runners, a satisfactory server and I use portainer as an interface and management. Later, I am probably to move most of the services which are not hosted on docker, or a vm.
VMs!
On my homelab, I also have VMs. When I was scrolling through Youtube, I found this video which was partly my guide for installing Docker, and VMs. I've setup some windows vms for general use, and HomeAssistant, which totally didn't take multiple hours to make.
What I would have done differently...
From what I now know, I probably wouldn't have installed Ubuntu Server*, I would have probably installed something like Proxmox, then put VMs there, and move my docker stuff there. It would allow me to install VMs much, much easier, as Virtualbox doesn't have very good interfaces, the only remote I have interface is Remotebox (which i use), But it's linux only, meaning I can only use it on linux (eg a chromebook) or with WSL2, which many of my devices don't have enough space for it, and can't use it. Then again there is phpVirtualbox, which was last updated for Virtualbox 5, which i am using Virtualbox 7... As I also use the server as a NAS, which I use samba, but I should have used a proper NAS thing, like TrueNAS or Unraid, Although, I'd like to put more than just my NAS on the drive, for eg, the SSD i'm using is 128gb, while I have a hard drive, which is 2TB, and I'd like to store my Plex movies there.
* Technicly, I installed Ubuntu Desktop, but ran a command to uninstall Ubuntu Desktop, and install Ubuntu Server
So far, I've got a domain, and I've gotta go back to dealing with apache virtualhosts, cya!
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