For the past 5 years or so, I have been using a single ISP at home and mobile data for backup when it went down. But since last few months, the ISP service became a bit unreliable – this is more related to the rainy season. Mobile data doesn’t give [...]

So I got an opportunity to set up Asterisk PBX with a Reliance Communications E1 line. I have worked with Asterisk PBX, but without PSTN interfacing. This post is about what all stuff I have done to get a Reliance E1 line with Digium TE131F card. Having explored a lot [...]

I’m a huge fan of ZFS because of its performance and other features like snapshots, transparent compression. In fact I had switched to FreeBSD for servers just because it had native ZFS support. But as of Ubuntu 16.04, ZFS is officially supported for non-root partitions. Now I’m migrating a FreeBSD [...]

Recently I moved from Apache to Nginx on one of my servers due to increase in traffic. But I was using HTTP Basic authentication with group based authorization on Apache in this manner: However, there’s no AuthGroupFile  in nginx. But LUA, a programming language is supported in nginx. So here’s [...]

I use dynamic DNS for my home internet connection so that I can access the machines from anywhere on the internet. And I use OpenWRT on my router. Earlier I was using Namecheap for managing DNS but I switched to CloudFlare for performance and security reasons of the website. Unfortunately [...]