When I initially spinned up my k8s cluster, I got everything working but I always experienced network disconnects. it turns out it’s due to my NIC. It was quite difficult to notice this or maybe I just really never doubted my hypervisor and the hardware. Eventually I thought of checking the dmesg logs from within proxmox.
Sep 29 14:54:58 pve1 kernel: e1000e 0000:00:1f.6 eno1: Detected Hardware Unit Hang: TDH <22> TDT <bb> next_to_use <bb> next_to_clean <22> buffer_info[next_to_clean]: time_stamp <100cb7acb> next_to_watch <23> jiffies <100cb7d99> next_to_watch....
Configure port forwarding on your home router
While setting up Nextcloud on my Unraid server, there was a part where I had to port forward incoming traffic to a reverse proxy. Here I will show you how to set it up on my TP-Link router.
The port forwarding function can be found in Advanced Settings > NAT forwarding > Virtual Server. Do note the name and location of this function can vary between brands and even models of the same brand....
Configure Dynamic DNS to reach your home network
For this first post I want to start with the basic question — how do you reach your server at home with a dynamic public IP? I am almost sure that this is the most asked question when starting with self-hosting especially if you have the mindset of being able to access your environment anytime, anywhere. Well, at least for me, this is the very first question I had in mind when I was just starting back then....
