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July 24, 2025

How to Install CheckCle on Your Synology NAS

CheckCle is an open-source, self-hosted monitoring platform designed for real-time oversight of full-stack systems, applications, and infrastructure. It offers robust features including uptime monitoring, distributed checks, incident tracking, and multi-channel alerting (e.g. Telegram, email). Built with flexibility in mind, CheckCle supports HTTP/HTTPS, SSL certificate monitoring, and system metrics collection (CPU, memory, disk, network, Docker containers) … Read more about How to Install CheckCle on Your Synology NAS

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July 23, 2025

How to Install Portracker on Your Synology NAS

Portracker is a self-hosted, open-source tool for real-time port monitoring and network service discovery. It automatically scans systems to detect services and ports, preventing deployment failures due to conflicts. With a lightweight, single-process design and embedded SQLite database, it supports Docker, offers peer-to-peer monitoring, hierarchical server grouping, and a modern, responsive UI. Deployable via Docker … Read more about How to Install Portracker on Your Synology NAS

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July 23, 2025

How to Install Twenty on Your UGREEN NAS

Twenty is an open-source CRM platform designed as a modern, flexible alternative to traditional solutions like Salesforce and Pipedrive. Twenty aims to address the high costs and data lock-in issues of conventional CRMs. With a user-friendly interface, Twenty offers customizable objects for storing unique data, advanced features for business process management, and the ability to ...
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July 22, 2025

How to Install Gancio on Your Synology NAS

Gancio is an open-source, community-driven platform designed as a shared agenda for local communities, emphasizing decentralization and privacy. Gancio enables small, local nodes tied to specific regions or thematic groups to manage and share event listings without centralizing power or data. It prioritizes anonymity, allowing events to be posted without identifying the publisher, even to ...
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July 21, 2025

How to Install Transmission on Your UGREEN NAS

Transmission is designed for easy, powerful use. Transmission has the features you want from a BitTorrent client: encryption, a web interface, peer exchange, magnet links, DHT, µTP, UPnP and NAT-PMP port forwarding, webseed support, watch directories, tracker editing, global and per-torrent speed limits, and more. In this step by step guide I will show you ...
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July 19, 2025

How to Install Medical Records on Your Synology NAS

Medical Records is a lightweight, self-hosted application designed to help individuals manage their personal medical information with a focus on privacy and control. Built with a React frontend and FastAPI backend, it allows users to securely store and organize health records, such as medical history, doctor visits, medications, and procedures, in a centralized, user-friendly interface. … Read more about How to Install Medical Records on Your Synology NAS

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July 19, 2025

How to Install FastTrack on Your Synology NAS

FastTrack is a self-hosted docker application that tracks your fasting and bodyweight. It provides health monitoring and comprehensive analytics. FastTrack tracks health metrics such as intermittent and long fasts, calorie burn calculations, weight metrics such as BMI calculations and supplement tracking. Its features include beautiful color themes, including dark mode, secure user accounts with individual … Read more about How to Install FastTrack on Your Synology NAS

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July 17, 2025

Synology WordPress 6.8.2

On July 15, 2025, WordPress 6.8.2 was released to the public. This version is available for “download” from wordpress.org and not in the Synology Package Center. So, if you want to download and install WordPress 6.8.2 on your Synology NAS, you have to follow my step by step guide on how to manually update a new version ...
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July 16, 2025

Synology: Pi-hole Docker Version V6 2025.07.1

On July 15, 2025, the Pi-hole team released version 6.1.4 of their core product, Docker version 2025.07.1 being the latest version for Docker. You can install it for free on your Synology NAS using my handy guides. Pi-hole is a Linux network-level advertisement and Internet tracker blocking application which acts as a DNS sinkhole, and optionally ...
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