Homelab on Notes

Basic Intrusion Detection System with mtree

Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

After the very basic server setup, having some kind of simple Intrusion Detection System (IDS) seems like a good idea. While all the previous steps were designed to prevent someone taking control of your server, if someone has managed to tamper with something, short of being locked out - how would you know?

Basic FreeBSD Server Setup

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Since starting with FreeBSD for my homelab and self-hosting experiments, I've come up with a few standard first steps that I do to any new server.

Setting Up a Simple Git Server - Gitweb: The Unexpected Part 2

Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A few weeks ago I set up a simple git server to run at home so I don't have to rely on Github or similar external services. That worked fine, but two things felt unfinished: The ability to create a new repository, and an easy way of listing the existing ones, without having to SSH into the host. Luckily with GitWeb, shell scripts and CGI magic we can fix that.

Setting Up A Simple Git Server

Sat, 10 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I wanted a local Git server on my home network to store some repositories without relying on GitHub for everything. I don't need a web interface, so the built git-http-backend should be enough. Combined with a web server's access permissions I can have anonymous cloning, protected pushing and private repositories.