S***box Laptop Server

This is part 3 of an article series. You can read the previous one here So now that the server can store files, I want to be able to easily monitor it without needing to SSH into it or dig the laptop out from underneath my bed Time to add a monitoring service, preferably with a web interface. dash Looking through awesome-selfhosted (great resource, highly recommend for anyone looking for things to run on their home server) I found a project called dash, a ligthweight web app that allows you to remotely monitor your server. ...

This is part 2 of an article series. You can read the previous one here So now that I have a working server running Debian, we need to actually run useful things on it, otherwise it’s a hunk of plastic sipping electricity under my bed. Why not start with something simple, getting a file server running on here so I can transfer files to/from it. I mean the laptop has 1 TB of storage so I might as well use it. ...

So I’ve always wanted to try building a homelab and experimenting with running my own server, however homelabs are expensive, require a lot of space, and good networking infrastructure. I unfortunately have none of these as I am a broke college student living in a dorm. But thats when I had an idea, I had a bunch of old laptops I used to use lying around at home, why not turn one of those into a server? ...