Nas

01

23 min read

Self-hosted family SFTP: exposing a NAS without port forwarding using Pangolin + Newt + SFTPGo

Four non-techy relatives need access to folders on my NAS from anywhere, simply, with a mainstream Android app. The old Internet-exposed SFTP is gone. Full story of replacing it with a Pangolin + Newt + SFTPGo stack: no public IP on the NAS, outbound WireGuard tunnel, raw TCP SFTP coming out of a 3€/month VPS Lite. Plus two hours wasted blaming my ISP when the culprit was sitting one panel over.

02

15 min read

Kernel panic on a Debian NAS: recovering a truncated libc without rebooting into the void

One February morning, my Terramaster F6-424 NAS running Debian 13 won't boot. Immediate kernel panic on the very first userspace exec. No recovery mode, single kernel installed, aggressive hardening: the system has no way to catch itself. Full story of the diagnosis (libc.so.6 turned into "ISO-8859 text" instead of ELF), the recovery from a live USB (with the apt↔libc chicken-and-egg trap), and the 2026 best practices I applied so it never happens again. Bonus: a second incident in May that revealed the real root cause.

03

7 min read

Secure remote access to your NAS with Tailscale

Setting up Tailscale as a WireGuard mesh VPN to access your NAS and entire local network from anywhere, without opening ports.

04

6 min read

NAS monitoring: watching disks, services and logs at a glance

Deploying Uptime Kuma, Scrutiny, Dozzle and Homepage on a Debian NAS to monitor disk health, service availability and Docker logs.

05

6 min read

Managing photos with self-hosted Immich

Deploying Immich on a Debian NAS as a self-hosted Google Photos alternative, with facial recognition, AI search and external libraries.

06

6 min read

Building a complete media center with Jellyfin and the *arr stack

Deploying Jellyfin, Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, Bazarr and Jellyseerr on a Debian NAS for a fully self-hosted media center.