We migrated our Nextcloud server to PostgreSQL!
For some time now we have developed different types of VMs, and our main focus have always been the Nextcloud…
Reset MySQL 5.7 root password
In the later versions of the Nextcloud VM we now store the password in /root.my.cnf instead (since 11.0.3), and removes…
Share Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates between hosts
As Let’s Encrypt doesn’t support wildcard certificates (yet) you may have to share your certificate between hosts. One such scenario…
[Important notice] Add your own SMTP settings in Nextcloud
The Nextcloud VM is all about convenience. Easy to setup, and with as little hassle as possible. One of the…
Hyper-V Generation 2 and Ubuntu Server 16.04
If you plan to run Ubuntu Server on Hyper-V generation 2, there are a few things to think about that…
How to install VMware Workstation 12 on Linux 4.10 kernel
The latest Linux kernel 4.10 is out and ships with Ubuntu 17.04. Since we moved over to that kernel Wifi…
Setup multiple accounts with DDclient and Cloudflare
If you have a Dynamic Public IP from your ISP and use Cloudflare as your DNS provider you could use…
New backup NAS – QNAP X831-8G
To ensure that we won’t run out of backup space, we went ahead and bought a new NAS. Our previous…
Automated Collabora installation on Nextcloud
At Tech and Me we love to automate stuff to make tech easier, and this time it has come to…
Fix flickering screen on Dell XPS 13 (9343)
When running Ubuntu 16.04 with the 4.4 kernel you sometimes get a flickering screen, at least we noticed it and…
NextBerry RPI
NextBerry is a RaspberryPI (2 or 3) running Nextcloud. It is forked from the official Nextcloud VM and maintained by…
VMware ESXi Configuration Backup with PowerCLI
You never know, your VMware vSphere ESXi host may break, hardware may fail or something else forces you to restore…
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
One year has passed since we switched domain and became Tech and Me for real. It’s been an eventful year…
Nextcloud 11 is around the corner, and we are ready!
A few weeks back we moved from ownCloud to Nextcloud. So far so good, but we were a bit nervous….
Never use BestWebSoft! [WARNING]
Just wanted to send out a warning regarding BestWebSoft. We just purchased the PRO version of a plugin they offered and got…
Notice: We will remove all subscribers
Due to several evil bots lately our subscribers list are plottered with a lot of bad and invalid email addresses….
We migrated to Nextcloud 10.0.1
When Nextcloud first were announced we didn’t really know what to do. Should we stay with ownCloud that had worked…
Nextcloud update is now FULLY automated
Are you used to apt-get updates with ownCloud but hesitated to make the switch to Nextcloud because Nextcloud doesn’t provide…
Update to the latest ownCloud apt-key (9.1.1)
As ownCloud 9.1.1 was shipped the apt-key got replaced and the old one is not valid anymore, which in other…
Planned maintenance
Next week we will move all our storage to a brand new server with ZFS capabilities and hot-swap raid to…
Improved SSL + added HTTP2
The last couple of weeks we had some complaints about that our links to the VMs didn’t work properly. Our…