I use external drives to backup everything on my Synology NAS. My data easily fits on a single large drive so:
- I put two large drives in my NAS and use raid1 (mirrored disks)
- The entire backup (or even multiple backups) can fit on an external drive.
Stephen
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I recently purchased a Unitek USB hard drive bay to use with my Synology NAS. I give it five stars. (★★★★★). I was worried that it wouldn't work because Synology's help documents state:
USB devices should be connected to your Synology NAS directly. Connecting any devices through a USB hub is not supported.
I'm pleased to report that it works just fine.
I recently upgraded my NAS from a 15 year old Infrant ReadyNAS to a new Synology DS218+. I give it five stars (★★★★★) with a few minor complaints from the perspective of a Linux power user.
In the 1990s when the web was new, under construction notices were popular. Many sites would have them on unfinished pages. Some people are tempted to use them today, but there are some good reasons that their popularity has declined.
It is tempting to freak out when you open Google Search Console and find that it lists errors. They can look like big problems with your site that need to be fixed. However, most errors found in Google Search Console can be ignored.
Google has recently given a lot of visibility to structured data. That is, special HTML markup from schema.org about various types of data. When implementing several types of structured data, Google will display rich snippets in the search results such as star ratings of reviews. Google added a structured data testing tool to search console.
Because of all this, many webmasters think they need to implement structured data for SEO. That just isn't the case. Continue reading
There are a lot of misconceptions about SEO and web development. None of the following are true, but I regularly run into people who believe them.
I wanted to run WordPress on my Ubuntu webserver such that:
- WordPress gets installed and updated through
apt - It runs multilpe sites that each have their own configuration, plugins and themes
If you are using Route53 for DNS, it is pretty easy to update a route 53 DNS record with your current IP address as a dynamic DNS service. Here is a script that does so. It
- Looks up your current IP address
- Looks up the IP address in DNS for your host name
- Uses the AWS command line client to update the DNS record if it needs to be changed
When I install the Palemoon web browser, I like to install some additions and tweak some settings.
After replacing the TDS router with a Tomato powered device TV shows were no longer getting recorded properly on the TDS DVR. The behavior I was seeing was that recorded programs had no video (black screen) and played at an accelerated rate.
I wanted to add a second router to my home network such that:
- Devices that connect to it get put on the main LAN network
- No double NAT
- A single DHCP server doling out IP addresses
- The administration panels of all routers are accessible
I have had HTTPS enabled on my sites for sites for four years. Up until now I have have StartSSL for the certificates. I migrated from StartSSL to Lets Encrypt because StartSSL is having problems and Lets Encryt now offers free certificates.
This year's SavvyRoo 2015 April Fools's Day prank is a simple button that shouldn't be touched. If you do touch it, it breaks all the colors.
Occasionally, a git source code repository needs to have something removed from it permanently, even from the history.