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

March 15, 2017 By Richie Leave a Comment

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

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 … [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 62 Comments

Setup a LAMP Web Server on Raspberry Pi 3 - Complete DIY Guide

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, … [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

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

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 … [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: … [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

ASUS Z97I-PLUS Intel Core i5 Client Build

January 29, 2015 By Richie Leave a Comment

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I was tasked with building a fast, small Windows 7 PC for an important client recently with reliability and performance the main concerns. I chose the Mini-ITX form factor for obvious reasons and an ASUS Z97I-PLUS motherboard, Intel Core i5 4460 CPU, along with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Builds, Cases, CPU's, Desktops & Workstations, Hard Drives & SSD's, Hardware, Motherboards, Optical Drives & Discs, Power Supplies, RAM Memory, Windows, Windows 7 Tagged With: 250D, 4460, 64 bot, ASUS, Blu-Ray, Core i5, Corsair, Intel, Intel 4460, LG, LG Blu-Ray, memory, Obsidian, RAM, Vengeance, Windows 7, Z97I-PLUS

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