July 7, 2024

How to Install Medama on Your Synology NAS

Medama Analytics is an open-source project dedicated to providing self-hostable, cookie-free website analytics. With a lightweight tracker of less than 1KB, it aims to offer useful analytics while prioritizing user privacy. In my opinion, Medama is faster and more lightweight compared to Umami, Plausible and Matomo. In this step by step guide I will show ...
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July 5, 2024

Synology Install RSS with Portainer

My previous guide for RSS involved the use of Task Scheduler. Today I’m offering a recommended and excellent alternative for installing the latest RSS version via Portainer. RSS is a simple RSS feed aggregator. It supports RSS and ATOM formats with regular auto-fetching of RSS feeds. Every hour by default, configurable down to 5 mins. In this step ...
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July 5, 2024

mariushosting Facebook Group At Over 69K Members

Yesterday, July 4, 2024, our Synology Facebook Group reached 69K+ members! Yesterday was also an important American Holiday, July 4, Independence day. I would like to wish a very happy 4th to all my American friends and visitors celebrating this special day! 69 thousand people have joined our Facebook group and are part of our ...
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July 4, 2024

How to Install Calibre on Your UGREEN NAS

Calibre is a cross-platform open-source suite of e-book software by Kovid Goyal. Calibre supports organizing existing e-books into virtual libraries, displaying, editing, creating and converting e-books, as well as syncing e-books with a variety of e-readers. Editing books is supported for EPUB and AZW3 formats. In short, Calibre is a powerful and easy to use ...
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July 2, 2024

Synology Install Shiori with Portainer

My previous guide for Shiori involved the use of Task Scheduler. Today I’m offering a recommended and excellent alternative for installing the latest Shiori version via Portainer. Shiori is a simple bookmarks manager written in the Go language. You can use it as a command line application or as a web application. This application is distributed as a ...
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July 1, 2024

How to Install Statusnook on Your Synology NAS

With Statusnook you can effortlessly deploy a status page and start monitoring your websites in minutes. Statusnook is open source and self hostable. In this step by step guide I will show you how to install Statusnook on your Synology NAS using Docker & Portainer. STEP 1 Please Support My work by Making a Donation. ...
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June 30, 2024

How to Install Pi-Hole on Your UGREEN NAS

Pi-Hole is a Linux network-level advertisement and Internet tracker blocking application which acts as a DNS sinkhole (and, optionally, a DHCP server), intended for use on a private network. What is a DNS sinkhole? A DNS sinkhole, also known as a sinkhole server, Internet sinkhole, or Blackhole DNS is a DNS server that gives out ...
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June 29, 2024

How to Install Logitech Media Server on Your Synology NAS

Logitech Media Server is a streaming audio server supported by the LMS community and formerly supported by Logitech, developed in particular to support their Squeezebox range of digital audio receivers. In this step by step guide I will show you how to install Logitech Media Server on your Synology NAS using Docker & Portainer. STEP ...
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June 28, 2024

How to Install AdGuard on Your UGREEN NAS

AdGuard is DNS ad blocking similar to Pi-Hole. It’s a privacy protection software which comprises open-source and shareware products that protect Microsoft Windows, Linux, OS X, Android and iOS users from unwanted ads, pop-ups, banners, as well as from tracking, obscene content, malware and phishing. Over 5 million people are reported to be using the ...
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June 27, 2024

How to Install DrawDB on Your Synology NAS

DrawDB is a robust and user-friendly database entity relationship (DBER) editor right in your browser. Build diagrams with a few clicks, export sql scripts, customize your editor, and more without creating an account. In this step by step guide I will show you how to install DrawDB on your Synology NAS using Docker. STEP 1 ...
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