Tutorials
Back Up and Restore Jellyfin and the Media Automation Stack
Protect Jellyfin, Plex, Arr, SABnzbd, and Tdarr state with consistent encrypted backups, an explicit restore order, and an isolated recovery test.
Ubiquiti Site Magic Routing: A No-Nonsense Beginner Guide to Routes, Route Injection, and Software-Defined Wide Area Network Fabric Design
A practical Site Magic routing guide covering UniFi site-to-site VPNs, route injection, subnet overlap, firewall policy, and branch troubleshooting.
Building a Network Digital Twin Workflow
A network digital twin is useful when it models topology, intent, policy, dependencies, and change impact. Here is a practical workflow for using it safely.
Reverse Proxy for Media Apps: Nginx Proxy Manager, SSL, Access Lists, and Security
A safer way to publish media-app hostnames with Nginx Proxy Manager, SSL, access lists, private defaults, logging, patching, and recovery boundaries.
Homelab DNS Guide: Local Names, Ad Blocking, and Reliability
A practical homelab DNS design for local names, ad blocking, split DNS, redundant resolvers, VPN clients, and safe internal naming.
Plex + Tdarr GPU Strategy: Sharing NVIDIA GPUs Without Hurting Playback
Assess Plex and Tdarr GPU contention with a playback baseline, one-worker tests, and peak-hour limits; pause batch work when playback regresses and retain originals for recovery.
Radarr Import Lists That Do Not Fill Your Library With Junk
Control Radarr import lists with source tags, staged search behavior, root folders, quality profiles, and manual review before automation creates noise.
Homelab Reverse Proxy Guide: HTTPS Without Unsafe Exposure
A security-first reverse proxy guide for homelabs, covering DNS, TLS, app exposure, internal-only services, authentication, logging, and validation.
Custom Formats and Quality Profiles Explained for Radarr and Sonarr
Understand Radarr and Sonarr quality profiles, custom formats, minimum scores, upgrade behavior, language rules, and TRaSH-style scoring.
SABnzbd Performance Tuning for a Homelab Media Server
Tune SABnzbd for homelab media automation with incomplete folders, connection counts, article cache, Direct Write, categories, priorities, and API checks.