Introduction: Why a Reverse Proxy? In modern self-hosted environments, you’re often running multiple services — like a photo gallery (e.g., Immich), media server (e.g., Jellyfin), and dashboards. If […]
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Firewall Logging, Backups & Best Practices
— Keep It Clean, Recoverable, and Easy to Maintain Why This Matters A solid firewall config can take hours to build — but minutes to lose. Whether it’s: […]
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Understanding NAT & Hairpin NAT in MikroTik
— Make Local and External Access Work Seamlessly What is NAT? NAT (Network Address Translation) lets multiple devices on your internal network (usually private IPs like 192.168.x.x) share […]
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Address Lists for Humans (and Hackers) MikroTik
Grouping IPs the Smart Way in Your MikroTik Firewall Let’s face it — if you’ve ever tried managing a firewall with individual IP rules, you know it gets […]