There is also a lot that goes on outside of your browser. It blocks tracking logic embedded inside other things, too. For example, my TV cannot phone home to Samsung anymore to tell it what I am doing.
You can get really wild with firewall rules to truly prevent any DNS traffic from escaping your physical network.
1) Run once, use everywhere. (Including devices without a browser, like an Android/Apple/'smart' TV.)
2) iPhones.
3) Configure alongside rest of networking, not clicking buttons to manually sync within browsers of the same type.
[1] https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/dnscloak-secure-dns-client/id1...
[2] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/cre...
Specifically, iPhones cannot do in-browser content or domain blocking if the browser is not Safari.
This might be the best machine I’ve ever owned. It’s rock solid, a great Docker introduction and runs a load of small tasks without issue or intervention for a year+ so far.
Anyone know offhand if this year is getting a refresh to the 1618+? I think that Synology has a tick-tock upgrade cadence with consumer product lines getting upgrades in year x, and enterprise products get upgrades in year x+1.
Is there a good guide to start researching that isn't a top-ten list with just affiliate links?
Definitely have a look though the relevant reddit subs and by and large the relavant ones are positive and helpful, eg /datahoarder /synology /homelab. It's good to scan them pre purchase too - for example it's been interesting watch the Western Digital drive issues play out over those subs
There are some off-the-shelf solutions that are expensive and well regarded (eg Synology DS918 DS1019) but expensive. There are a lot of pretty nice systems you'll be able to hack together too. Freenas is excellent in this regard, but it gets into personal favorites very fast.
My home test xen hypervisor is an older Dell desktop mid-tower workstation dual socket/8-core xeon, because it's reasonably quiet.
For Docker, I think it's just the ease of use. Imagine a standard web service you want to host, consisting of an Apache, some PHP, a MySQL database and maybe a Redis cache as well. Now imagine how the software's author would write setup instructions. 'Grab this and that version of these things, install them, then edit these 10 config files and make sure these lines are in there.' With Docker it's literally 'Here, copy that docker-compose.yml to your server und run `docker-compose up -d`'.
- Netgear Cable modem
- Edgerouter ER4
- 8-port POE Edgeswitch, powers the nanoHD AP in my hallway and acts as the backbone of the network.
- Raspberry Pi 3 as a dedicated pihole DNS server
- TPLink 16 port switch serves all the 'lab' gear.
- 2x R720's. One is off, the other is a VMWare ESXi host.
- ESXi is pretty light at the moment - running Unifi controller and a dedicated VM that just runs Elasticsearch for a side project. For a while I was heavily using it to simulate an AD deployment for a small business.
- Synology DS918 is a network drive and network time machine backup destination. It backs itself up to Backblaze nightly.
- Everything is on a simple Cyberpower 1500VA UPS. I can run everything for about 80 minutes without power, but if I shut down the R720 the runway gets much longer.
I got my start in about 2003-2004 by trying to run my own mini ISP out of my home during High School. I was doing everything over a residential DSL connection that only got 1.5mbit down and a fraction of that for upload.
I still remember asking my bud to help me 'test my mail server' which was a Qmail installation via the Qmail rocks guide. The machine was a Pentium 3 with 128mb of RAM. My bud Anand (Founder of Gyrosco.pe) sent a handful of test emails to it and brought it to its knees! Absolutely hilarious incident at the time.
I wish that I had more photos of that time in my life.