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Build Your Own Mini-ITX Firewall with IPFire – Complete DIY Guide

March 15, 2017 By Richie Leave a Comment

Introduction Today I will show you how to build your very own compact Mini-ITX Firewall using easily sourced parts with the excellent (and Open Source) IPFire firewall operating system. You can also use any old PC with an extra Ethernet card, but this guide does focus on the Mini-ITX form factor and parts suitable for it. I will also give you links to the sources for each part. Contents Introduction, Hardware The build Motherboard BIOS settings, Installing IPFire … [Read more...]

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Filed Under: Builds, Firewalls & Security, Hardware, Linux, Motherboards, Network Adapters, Networking, Other OS, Power Supplies Tagged With: antivirus, clamav, DNS, firewall, GEOBlock, IDS, infosec, Intrusion Detection, IPFire, Mini-ITX, MiniITX, Oinkcode, Online Security, P2P, Privacy, security, Sourcefire VRT, squidclamav

Setup LAMP Server on Raspberry Pi 3 – [Updated 2019] Complete DIY Guide

March 7, 2017 By Richie 64 Comments

Introduction [This guide has been fully updated in 2019 to reflect the changes to MySQL in Raspbian "Stretch" v9.x and the FTP issues have been fixed] You wouldn't think a little PC like the Raspberry Pi 3 could handle the job of being a Web Server, but it does, and performs flawlessly too. Today I will show you how to source genuine Raspberry Pi 3 hardware, then setup a fully fledged LAMP Server (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) along with instructions to install WordPress. You'll also know how to … [Read more...]

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Filed Under: Builds, Hardware, Linux, Motherboards, Other OS, Raspberry Pi, Raspberry Pi 3, Raspbian, Web Design Tagged With: Apache, LAMP, LAMP Server, Linux, MySQL, PHP, Portable, Raspberry Pi, RasPi, Web Server

Budget 6TB RAID-5 Network-Attached Storage (NAS) Under $600 DIY Guide

February 25, 2017 By Richie 2 Comments

Introduction Today I'll show you how to build your own budget 6TB RAID-5 Network-Attached Storage (NAS) System for your home or small business for under USD$600. We'll be using a second-hand desktop PC and a dedicated hardware RAID controller card, but purchasing new hard drives. We'll also be installing OpenMediaVault as the NAS operating system. Nowadays, used computers are cheap-as-chips on websites like eBay and Amazon if you know how to search. I am very good at getting bargains so I will … [Read more...]

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Filed Under: Builds, FreeBSD, Hard Drives & SSD's, Hardware, Linux, Motherboards, NAS Storage, Networking, Other OS, RAID Controller Cards, Routers & Switches, Solaris Tagged With: 802.3ad, Budget, DIY, Guide, Hard Drive, Link Aggregation, Linux Bonding, NAS, Network, Network-Attached Storage, Networking, RAID, RAID-5, SAS, SATA, Storage, Tutorial

Smoothwall maintenance

August 16, 2015 By Richie Leave a Comment

Doing some maintenance on my Smoothwall Homebrew

Just doing some maintenance to my Smoothwall Homebrew build I built about 12 months ago, few issues with the operating system so I decided to do an entire reinstall of Smoothwall version 3.1. Check out the original build video here: http://pchelp.ricmedia.com/smoothwall-mini-itx-intel-build-icase/ cheers Richie … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Builds, Cases, Firewalls & Security, Hard Drives & SSD's, Hardware, Latest News, Linux, Miscellaneous, Motherboards, Networking Tagged With: Custom Build, Home Brew Smoothy, Homebrew, Smoothwall, Smoothwall Express, Smoothy

Bittorrent download PC Mini-ITX, Intel CPU

December 9, 2014 By Richie Leave a Comment

Bittorrent Download PC Box Mini-ITX, Intel CPU

I really don't like having my expensive workstation PC running as a BitTorrent client overnight (or at any time) because let's face it, you are open to hackers for many hours at a time with open ports etc, so I decided to build a power efficient, Mini-ITX box dedicated to BitTorrent downloads, and the result is this video. All went well with some minor issues usual for this kind of build. I have listed all the parts I used with links to manufacturers below. Enjoy! BitTorrent Download Box … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Builds, Cases, CPU's, Hard Drives & SSD's, Hardware, Motherboards, Network Adapters, Power Supplies, RAM Memory, Sound Cards, Windows, Windows 7 Tagged With: Bittorrent, BT, Custom Build, GA-J1900N-D3V, Gigabyte, Intel, Mini-ITX, Windows 7

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