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AdGuard Home is a Selfhosted DNS server that can block Ads and Malware Domains inside your network. AdGuard Home is an alternative to a PiHole, with one big advantage: AdGuard can natively do DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS, and expirmentell it even provides support for DNS-over-QUIC. With a PiHole this would theoretically be possible as well, but you need additional software and some manual configuration. For this reason, today I want to show you how to set up AdGuard with Docker....

Standard Notes is a note-taking app that you can use on all major platforms and mobile devices. With Standard Notes, your notes are end-to-end encrypted and therefore protected from prying eyes. I’ve been a fan of Standard Notes for a long time. Unfortunately, the annual subscription has always been too expensive for me and I have only used the free version of Standard Notes. Besides the hosted version of Standard Notes, there is also the possibility to install your own self-hosted Standard Notes instance on your server....

Joplin Server is a self-hosted solution to synchronize your own notes, it supports multiple clients for Desktop and Mobile and comes with an optional end-to-end encryption. At the time of writing this article only clients newer than version 2.x work with the Joplin Server. This means you need to download the latest version of the desktop client from the GitHub repo. For the mobile apps, there is currently no new version that supports syncing with the Joplin server, but those are coming....

Managing multiple docker containers on CLI could be a painful task, docker-compose is an easy to use solution to manage all your docker containers inside a docker-compose.yml file. You can run multiple docker containers inside one compose file. In this Guide I will show you how to install docker-compose on your Debian or Ubuntu server. Install docker-compose on Linux Make sure you have curl installed on your system. For Debian or Ubuntu you can do so, by running: apt install curl....

In this Guide we will install Traefik v2 as a reverse proxy with free LetsEncrypt SSL certificates for our Docker container. With Traefik you will be able to run multiple containers with different domains. This guide offers a ready to use docker-compose.yml for a quick start with Traefik. Traefik v2 Install Preparation Info If you don’t have docker installed yet, you can find instructions for Ubuntu or Debian. This Guide uses docker-compose to run Traefik, therefore its necessary to also install docker-compose....