August 24, 2023

Synology: Install Homebridge With Portainer

My previous guides for Homebridge involved the use of Task Scheduler and the .spk package. Today I’m offering a recommended and excellent alternative for installing the latest Homebridge version via Portainer. Homebridge is a lightweight NodeJS server you can run on your home network that emulates the iOS HomeKit API. Homebridge allows you to integrate with ... Read more about Synology: Install Homebridge With Portainer
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August 22, 2023

How to Install Crawlab on Your Synology NAS

Crawlab is a powerful Web Crawler Management Platform (WCMP) that can run web crawlers and spiders developed in various programming languages including Python, Go, Node.js, Java, C# as well as frameworks including Scrapy, Colly, Selenium, Puppeteer. It is used for running, managing and monitoring web crawlers, particularly in production environment where traceability, scalability and stability ... Read more about How to Install Crawlab on Your Synology NAS
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August 22, 2023

The Best Portable SSDs in 2023

Portable SSDs

PetaPixel has long been a fan of SanDisk products due to their once-sterling reputation and often excellent performance. However, some of SanDisk's portable SSDs fail so frequently that we can no longer recommend them. So with that in mind, what are the best alternatives?

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August 20, 2023

Synology: Increase MariaDB Max Connections and Packet Size

Do you know that MariaDB is configured by default to handle up to 150 connections? One additional connection is used to operate root access, but, if it’s not used for this purpose, then the maximum number of connections for MariaDB is 151. The number of connections that can be accepted by MariaDB/MySQL is determined by ... Read more about Synology: Increase MariaDB Max Connections and Packet Size
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August 19, 2023

SSD Cache on a Synology NAS: Ultimate Guide

In this article, we’re going to take a look at how to configure SSD Cache on a Synology NAS, and when you should, and shouldn’t use it. The overall performance of a Synology NAS can greatly be enhanced by implementing SSD caching, but it’s important to understand how it works before implementing it.  Understanding SSD Cache on a Synology NAS SSD caching is ultimately the process of using a smaller, faster SSD drive (preferably NVMe) to cache or store frequently accessed data from larger primary storage, such as HDDs. In general, it works by temporarily storing frequently accessed data from...

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