MihajloPi

Introduction Rooting a phone isn’t necessary for the general user, but could be useful for more advanced users. My first experience with rooting phones was around 2015 when I wanted to install an app on my second Android phone (white Sony Experia Arc S) to sync my phone’s time to the NTP servers to be as accurate as possible. Back then I didn’t have any experience in Linux and computing in general.

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Introduction Do you have two or more web servers in your home network and you wish to expose them to the network? Reverse proxy is all you need! It solves the problem of handling requests for different servers going to one public IP of your network. Nginx (read as “engine X”) is a popular open source web server used to serve web pages (static or dynamic) over HTTP/HTTPS and handle SSL/TLS encryption, but can be used additionally for reverse proxying and load balancing.

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Introduction Running long-term projects on Raspberry Pi? Having it freeze is the worst thing it can happen to your Pi, especially if you have an IoT remote project not easily accessible by any means. Freezes can happen for a variety of reasons: program bugs, insufficient RAM, too many spawned processes/threads… Watchdog can prevent that from happening. The watchdog timer is a hardware-implemented timer used to reset microcontrollers or processors in case a malfunction is detected.

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