Creating a DMZ

I’ve finally decided to address one of the projects that I’ve set out to do in Part 2 of my inaugural homelab report. I have been wanting to establish a DMZ for the longest period of time, but I’ve been intimidated because of the lack of my knowledge about both networking and security. For the uninitiated: A DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) is a network that hosts public-facing services on your network and has rules applied to it to limit or completely cut off its communication with the rest of the internal network....

September 12, 2024

Disappearance of my Plex Server

In order to celebrate the long weekend, I was going to take it easy with my Homelab tasks (hence the lack of posts over the couple of days) and just watch some shows I’ve got stored on my Plex. I logged on to my Plex, but my libraries are nowhere to be found. This sent me into a bit of a panic as I just spent CAD $2.5k to ensure I’d have some redundancy on my media files....

September 3, 2024