Streamline your home media experience
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Virtual machine test environments make practicing a guide or new configuration efficient and productive. I use VM Workstation, VM Player is the free version, for testing guides in a closed development environment. I like to SSH into the Debian virtual machines. Instead of clicking on the console in VM Player, … I'm curious
Reverse Proxies are an elegant and convenient method to remotely manage your media server's services. nginx can forward requests to your uTorrent web interface on your HTPC. When you are done with this guide you will be able to use your free dynamic DNS address (Windows Afraid DNS Guide… I'm curious
Varnish Cache is the best speed boost to give your WordPress site. Varnish is a reverse proxy that caches your WordPress site as HTML and serve them up quickly, bypassing the slow PHP backend (Apache or nginx). With this WordPress Varnish cache method you will always be serving up fast … I'm curious
Android HTPC TV boxes and TV sticks have become very popular due to their ease of use and affordability. Modifying configuration files can be cumbersome on Android boxes like the MK808b Plus. For example, integrating FTV with NTV on Kodi requires you add a custom .ini file. You can … I'm curious
The last HTPC Guides giveaway was a Banana Pi from Lemaker which Lorenzo won. This time around the Media Server Giveaway is a Raspberry Pi 2 for the lucky winner.
Varnish Cache is the best speed improvement for your WordPress site. It acts as a reverse proxy and will cache all of your pages as HTML and serve them up quickly, bypassing the slow PHP backend (Apache or nginx). With the WordPress Varnish cache method outlined here, you will always … I'm curious
Kodi has so many plugins available. You may have some favorite plugins you use very often. It can be annoying to have to scroll to Videos, go to Add ons and then find the plugin you want to launch. You can make things much easier on yourself by adding shortcuts … I'm curious