Streamline your home media experience
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Do you want a minimal Ubuntu distro for your Orange Pi Plus home media server? This post contains the image but a walkthrough for building your own Orange Pi Plus minimal Debian or Ubuntu server image will be posted once the project is on github. It was made possible by … I'm curious
DLNA servers allow you to stream your media library on your HTPC server to any DLNA enabled client. DLNA enabled clients include Bluray players, XBOX 360, XBOX One, PS3, PS4 and some Smart TVs. ReadyMedia miniDLNA has the lowest memory footprint of the DLNA servers I have tested. I am … I'm curious
Varnish a reverse proxy which seriously speeds up your WordPress site. If I didn't use Varnish on HTPC Guides the page load time would be 3+ seconds due to the slowness of PHP and all the WordPress plugins I use. Thankfully, I host on a Digital Ocean VPS where you … I'm curious
Is your favorite torrent provider missing from Sonarr? Jackett lets you use many torrent providers with Sonarr which it does not natively support. Jackett turns your home media server into a Torznab API server so it directly communicates with the torrent providers and translates search results into a format … I'm curious
A Reverse proxy is a convenient method to remotely access your media server’s web interfaces. When you are done with this guide you will be able to use your free dynamic DNS address (Mac OSX Afraid DNS Guide) like htpcguides.crabdance.com/htpc instead of htpcguides.crabdance.com:8085. This means fewer open ports … I'm curious
VMPlayer test environments are incredibly useful for anyone who wants to tinker with new software. It lets you have a playground environment where you can play, break and mess around as much as you like on an operating system with no consequences to your real home media server operations. In … I'm curious
Varnish speeds up your WordPress site significantly. 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). Traditionally plugins like W3 Total Cache and Varnish HTTP Purge empty single pages or the … I'm curious