Tag: how
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Increase to National Minimum Wage – March 2024
On the 2nd of February 2024, the Minister for Labour and Employment (Thembelani Waltermade Nxesi) announced an increase to the National Minimum Wage as well as the Minimum Wage for the Contract Cleaning Sector in terms of the National Minimum Wage Act, 2018 (as amended from 1 March 2024). This increase will take effect on…
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Installing Arch Linux (Dual Boot with Windows – Seperate Drives)
Have you always wanted to be able to add the iconic words; “I use Arch BTW” to your signature on a Linux forum? Are you distro-hopping and thought it would be a good idea to try out Arch Linux? It doesn’t really matter because it took me a bit of trial-and-error to get a working…
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Installing ERPNext 14 on Debian 12
ERPNext is an amazing, free and open-source ERP system built using the Frappe Bench framework. It is scale-able, simple to use and quite beautiful. It is also quite difficult to install outside of the easy-installers which do not play nice with Debian. In my case, I have an LXC Container on Proxmox VE, running Debian…
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Installing ERPNext on Fedora 37
ERPNext is an amazing, free and open-source ERP system built using the Frappe-Bench framework. It is scale-able, simple to use and quite beautiful. It is also quite difficult to install outside of the easy-installers which do not play nice in an existing Fedora Server setup due to the use of their own, in-house framework called…
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Debian 11 Groupware Server – LEMP Stack
Installing a mailserver running on Debian 11 (Either as a VM, on bare-metal or in an LXC Container). Since Google has decided to retire their Google Apps for Business and force migration to their paid Workspace Product, I found the need to migrate some of my deployed domains to a self-hosted Mail Service. My requirements…
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Configure a Debian 11 Groupware Server – LAMP Stack
Installing a mailserver on a Debian 11 LXC Container with Groupware Features contained in SOGo or NextCloud. Since Google has decided to retire their Google Apps for Business and force migration to their paid Workspace Product, I found the need to migrate some of my deployed domains to a self-hosted Mail Service. My requirements were…
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Creating a Wireguard site-to-site VPN Bridge on Debian 11 (Proxmox VE7)
Wireguard, having been accepted into dkms is a simple, quick and easy to deploy VPN standard which, in all of my own testing, has dramatically outperformed OpenVPN and IPSEC. I run my Datacenters on Proxmox 7 VE and I prefer to deploy all appliances as LXC Containers to simplify management. I also prefer LXC over…
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Installing ERPNext using Docker
In this Tutorial we will go through the steps to install ERPNext as a Docker Container Stack. The official documentation is a little complex and needs tweaking, however these steps will get the job down simply and without much effort. We will assume that you already have Docker installed and running and that you are…
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Installing Docker as an LXC Container in Proxmox VE – Debian 10 / 11
While LXC Containers are my general preference by virtue of the built-in support in Proxmox VE as well as the more open nature of such containers, sometimes it is necessary to run Docker because the solution you are looking for just does not deploy in LXC. For this reason, I have found it necessary to…
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Using Certbot to obtain and update free SSL Certificates for your Debian Web Server
How to use Certbot and Letsencrypt to install SSL Certificates for your self hosted websites on Debian/Fedora Webservers (Works on Debian 9, 10, and 11, Fedora 34, 35, 36, and 37, either running as Proxmox LXC Containers or on Bare-Metal) This tutorial assumes that you have a registered Domain and that your port forwarding is…