Author: CrunchyCrunch
PPPoE – Why, just why?!
Hi everyone, I know… I promised to write more for this year, but as always, teardowns and re-setups happen all the time in the homelab, so maybe it’s time for me to stop trying to catch every little detail and update about more specific things a tad more frequently. Maybe I will talk about the…
[Archive] Moving to GitHub Pages!
Edit 6th of August: Sorry for another change this quick. I sort of managed to setup the server “right” this time, so the migration is postponed (canceled?) indefinitely. We’re staying on this self-hosted WordPress instance. All data is still intact, the content below only serves archival purposes. đ Hello everyone, long story short. To share…
2025 – And The Future Of Crunchy Studio
Hey there, hope you all had a great christmas! đ We won’t be talking too much about particular tech today: Before it turns 2025, there are a few words I would very like to share. First, thanks to everyone that managed to find this blog and are somewhat interested! It’s my first time maintaining something…
Can’t “Contain” My Words – WordPress Site, Containerized
Hey there! Hope you could enjoy the last post and maybe take away a thing or two. Or maybe even three… đ Setting up reliable networking is an incredibly difficult task, but thankfully, OpenWrt got me through the process fairly well. Docker setup took a while as well, but at the end, things were running…
This Penguin Knows The Routes – OpenWrt Experience
(Featured Image credits at the bottom) Welcome back! Hope you enjoyed the last post as much as I did writing it. đ Self-hosting in general is really fun, and I find myself setting up things for hours straight sometimes… You can just do so much! Remember how I set up Ubuntu Server to run all…
Sanitizing My Home Network – AdGuard Home
Hey there! Hope you could follow along the last post quite well. I admit that it’s gotten quite long, but hope you could enjoy it nonetheless. đ And here I’m back, to show off other services I have running on my home server – yes, I have quite a lot of services running, and just…
Automating The Dream – This Is The Way To Smart Home
Hi there! Hope you could follow along the last post. đ I know it took quite long before we could now get to the story hosting the first real service on my home server, but as I was writing those posts, I remembered just how much I did to get things up and running and…
Small, but cute – N5105 Home Server
Previously, I showed you my how I fixed the WiFi problem in our apartment and finally obtained an public IPv4 address from my ISP. With the fundamental issues out of the way, I can finally set up my own little self-host environment. My laptop was great for that, but eventually, I had to put Windows…
Fixing WiFi – The Beginning of a Self-Host Journey
If you’re reading through this, amazing! Because this particular site has been self-hosted by me, at home :P. Ever since I got started learning Linux and stuff, I found out there are so many things you can do with a server running Linux! But there were so many hurdles to overcome before I could reach…
You need this – Ultimate Guide to Fedora Post-Installation
Below is the date when this post is last modified. This post will be kept updated if further recommendations are found. We all had this feeling at least once, or at least, I had. đ I install a Linux system, I install some package to fix an issue/add a feature/whatever, and now the system feels…