#TrueNAS

A home server is great until you have to keep logging in to do the same maintenance tasks over and over. I’ve been running TrueNAS SCALE for a while, and a few simple cron jobs have saved me from having to babysit some of my services. These are three jobs I actually use: one to keep my domain pointed at my home IP address, one to redeploy my Palworld server each morning, and one to pull updated Plex images monthly. [Read More]

What started as a simple local development tool for DigitalOcean Functions quietly turned into something much more serious: a production-grade failover system that now runs across home TrueNAS servers owned by the operators of FilaMeter. Internally, we call it DOrunner. The original goal was mundane—test Go-based serverless functions locally without burning through API calls or waiting on cloud deploys. But as usage grew and traffic patterns became less predictable, that local runner evolved into a core part of our production architecture. [Read More]