This turned out to be an unexpected long journey. It all began when I realized that my website images weren’t optimized as I had expected. I had been relying on the PaperMod and PaperModX themes in Hugo to handle image optimization. Everything seemed to be in place, but my images were still bulky and slow to load. The problem was evident, but the cause? Not so much.
I code a lot, and GitHub is where I share my work. But I wanted to take it a step further and feature my projects on my own website, as you can see on my main page. If you’re in the same boat and want to showcase your GitHub repositories on your Hugo blog, have a look at this article. We’ll explore two straightforward ways to make it happen.
Hosting your own services to be accessed by the public internet comes with its share of challenges, especially when exposing ports security concerns are involved. Cloud hosting providers are a good way to solve some of these problems, but can the costs can rise pretty quickly.
In this article, I’ll guide you through creating a Docker-based system for backing up and restoring your /home/user directory, storing backups on a mounted HDD, and implementing a 30-day data retention policy. Later, we will discuss how to automate this backup process using crontab.
After bolstering the storage capacity of a Linux VM within Proxmox or another hypervisor, you’ll discover that the operating system inside the VM doesn’t automatically recognize or utilize this newly added space.