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New Social Platforms

New Social Platforms

You may have noticed that the Social tab has some new icons! In keeping with the self-hosted mission on the Jellie Frontier, I've recently added links our Lemmy and Pixelfed instances. Both sites are hosted on Jellie Frontier servers and fully integrated with the Fediverse. 👋Goodbye centralized social

New Home for Game Servers

As part of the upcoming project I'm working on, all game server containers have been moved to GitHub. All containers have undergone significant reworks to standardize their features. They now all include: * Auto-updates * Allowlists enabled by default * Server configuration via environment variables (where available) * Updated documentation * More consistent

A Satisfactory Server

A Satisfactory Server

🌄It's been a while since my last blog post. I've been busy cooking up a big project that will bring together a lot of my recent work in containerizing game servers. New Features The latest addition to the game server fleet is Satisfactory! There's

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Automating Home Lab Backups with Borg

Backing up your data is one of the most important pillars of your digital presence–right alongside security and privacy. If you care about the data, it should be backed up. Period. For better or for worse, most people have outsourced their backup solutions to cloud providers like Microsoft OneDrive,

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Automating Minecraft Backups inside a Docker Container

🛠️This post is going to get more technical than usual. Buckle up. After days of beating my head against a wall, I finally got automatic backups working in my Minecraft Bedrock dedicated server container. What seemed initially like a simple solution required learning an entirely new scripting language. Limitations of

Building from Bedrock

Building from Bedrock

Volume Java I've been hosting Minecraft servers for almost as long as I've been playing Minecraft. In the days before dedicated servers (or at least before I was aware of them), I would stand my Steve in a safe corner and leave my iMac on all

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Building My First Container

An Invaluable Tool I've been using Docker containers for several years to self-host services. They allowed me to scale up my network and services to multiple machines and networks while still remaining easily manageable. Once I got a solid grasp on containers, I started to wonder why people

New Site

Welcome to the new and improved Jellie Frontier. The entire site has been overhauled with a new design, layout, and even back-end engine. Origins As you may know, the original website was written from scratch, by me, in Visual Studio Code. It was a great opportunity to learn more advanced

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Sunrise

I've finally taken the leap to update my site to something more modern and feature-filled. While I learned a lot and had a lot of fun writing the old site from scratch, I'd like to take advantage of the features a modern site has to offer.