A reverse proxy is a separate server, sitting in between your service and the internet, which will encrypt all traffic, seamlessly. When you connect from outside of your firewall, you’ll communicate securely to your reverse proxy, which will then pass along your traffic to your unencrypted applications. There are many benefits to this approach: this […]

For some reason, WordPress site is hosted on an internal local network but also require WAN access at the same time, “Port Forwarding” on the main router can be enable to achieve the requirements. There are benefits such as setting up a physical site for testing or migration without touching the live WordPress server. Setting […]

Synology NAS has many things we can do with it, one is installing a WordPress site using the Web Station package. But it only lets us install one instance of WordPress. You can manually setup additional wordpress instance via WordPress.org download or keep a fresh copy of “wordpress” folder. This was done under DSM 6.2.4-25556. For […]

Lots of people would like to host a website, but the monthly costs associated with web hosting isn’t always ideal. While it’s a good idea to scale your website to match the daily traffic it receives, it’s sometimes easier to host the website out of your house. This avoids monthly charges and allows you to […]

Benefits of Let’s Encrypt certificates are that they are automated, short lifetimes (90 days) and that they are completely FREE! Prerequisites before starting A domain name of your own, such as mydomain.com. DDNS service configured. Use Synology DDNS or DDNS on your router. Create a CNAME DNS record with your (mydomain.com) registrar to forward requests […]

Web Station allows Synology NAS to host up a dynamic, database-driven website or numerous 3rd-party web applications with MySQL and PHP technologies, such as Content Management, Customer Relationship Management and e-Commerce system. You can create a website with web pages on Synology NAS and the default shared folder “web” is provided by Web Station, allowing […]