Streamline your home media experience
Install Madsonic Streaming Media Server on Ubuntu to enjoy your media from anywhere in the world. Like Plex, Madsonic allows you to listen to music from your home in a browser or watch videos and transcodes them if necessary. Madsonic is written in Java and has an array of apps… I'm curious
Linux systems make solid home media servers. Like all servers, services can stop or crash for one reason or another. If you use Monit to monitor your Linux Home Media Server you can have these services restarted automatically when there is a small kink in your system. You can get … I'm curious
Install latest ReadyMedia miniDLNA on Ubuntu home server to stream your media to any DLNA clients. Some DLNA clients are: Bluray players, XBOX 360, XBOX One, PS3, PS4 and some Smart TVs. ReadyMedia miniDLNA has a low memory footprint too which makes it popular on ARMv7 processor devices. The latest … I'm curious
Monitoring Linux systems securely is important for home media server management. Use Monit to monitor your media server services and send email alerts if things have gone wrong. I personally use secure Monit on my web servers and media servers with https so nobody can sniff my password. Monit has … I'm curious
NTFS-3G allows you to read NTFS formatted hard drives on Linux systems. This is a huge convenience for users who wish to use their hard drives on both Windows and Linux systems. There are ext4 wrappers for Windows that allow you to read hard drives formatted with ext4. There is … I'm curious
CherryMusic is a browser-based music streaming jukebox. With CherryMusic on Ubuntu you can create your own personal Spotify-like server for your local music collection. The music can be stored locally on the server or on a NAS. You will be able to play your entire music collection through a web … I'm curious
The Varnish Cache Firewall is a Web Application Firewall that can protect WordPress. It is an open source project by comotion to integrate the modsecurity web application firewall into Varnish and will help protect WordpPress against SQL injections, XSS attacks and other web attacks. This Varnish firewall tutorial is specifically … I'm curious