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Add Modules to AzerothCore (60-Second-tutorial)
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Add Modules to AzerothCore (60-Second-tutorial)

Want to extend your AzerothCore private server with new features? In this ultra-short tutorial, I show you exactly how to install and configure a module step-by-step. Perfect for beginners getting started with private servers. ✔ Download & Unpack: Grab your module from GitHub and drop it into the modules folder.✔ Recompile: Yes, it sucks, but you have to recompile the server to make it work.✔ Configure: Rename your .dist files…

Apr 5, 2026
DrePack – AzerothCore Repack for Windows
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DrePack – AzerothCore Repack for Windows

The ultimate “lazy” way to host your own private WotLK World of Warcraft server with PlayerBots. DrePack is a fully portable AzerothCore environment, with a bunch of mods, featuring a minimal built-in management menu, and a simple account-registration page.

Mar 24, 2026
Build a World of Warcraft WotLK server on Ubuntu using AzerothCore with PlayerBots in 2026
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Build a World of Warcraft WotLK server on Ubuntu using AzerothCore with PlayerBots in 2026

In a recent post ↗, I showed how to set up a AzerothCore server with PlayerBots on Windows. In this post, we’re going to do exactly the same thing, but this time on a Linux machine. On Ubuntu 24.04 to be more specific. Requirements Build the server Database set up Data files Configure server Run the server Create your account Firewall / UFW Play the game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYU-pC8H1mU I’d suggest to…

Jan 31, 2026
How I Deal With WoW Nostalgia: Reclaiming the Magic With PlayerBots
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How I Deal With WoW Nostalgia: Reclaiming the Magic With PlayerBots

In this video, I’m getting personal. We all remember the “Golden Era” of World of Warcraft. Not just for the raids or the loot, but for the community. Before social media was everywhere, WoW was our town square. It was where we shared our lives, our struggles, and our triumphs on TeamSpeak and Ventrilo. But time moves on. Our guildies grew up, priorities shifted, and reality took us away from Azeroth.

Jan 20, 2026
Build a World of Warcraft WotLK server on Windows using AzerothCore with PlayerBots
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Build a World of Warcraft WotLK server on Windows using AzerothCore with PlayerBots

The previous posts I did on building your own WoW server are very popular on this website, according to the visitor’s statistics. But they’re not for everybody, since not everybody has a Linux machine, or the willingness to work with Linux. That’s why this post is especially for all the Windows users out there. We’re going to be building our own, private, World of Warcraft server with PlayerBots, using AzerothCore, ON WINDOWS!

Jan 9, 2026

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Hi! My name is André.

Thanks for stopping by. This has been my personal website since 2000. Here, I write about self-hosting various things, World of Warcraft and other things I tinker with.

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Create a secure adaptive bit-rate HLS stream with Nginx/RTMP/Ffmpeg on Ubuntu 20.04 (2021)
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Create a secure adaptive bit-rate HLS stream with Nginx/RTMP/Ffmpeg on Ubuntu 20.04 (2021)

6-8-2023 UPDATE: I wrote a new tutorial, suited for Ubuntu 22.04. Go to the new tutorial. 24-07-2023 UPDATE: Before you read/follow this tutorial, I want to inform you of something important. In case you follow this tutorial, there’s a big chance you won’t be able to get the adaptive streams to work correctly. I don’t know exactly why or what has changed, but I believe the audio codec is no…

Jan 31, 2021
500 subscribers on YouTube
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500 subscribers on YouTube

Today, I’ve reached the mark of 500 subscribers on my YouTube channel. It may not be that much, especially when compared with popular YouTubers. But for me, it’s special nevertheless. So thanks everybody!

Dec 4, 2020
Spawn a localhost nginx live-stream server on Windows with HLS and Dash within 10 minutes!
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Spawn a localhost nginx live-stream server on Windows with HLS and Dash within 10 minutes!

The title says it all. I’ve created a YouTube video to accompany this guide. Watch it here. Before we start, please find out if you are running a program on your PC that is using port 80 (a web server). If you do, disable it, or else Nginx will have a conflict with that program since only one process can use a port. Let’s download the latest release from the…

Oct 18, 2020
Ant Media Server on Ubuntu 18.04
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Ant Media Server on Ubuntu 18.04

This short guide will show you how to install Ant Media Server (Community Edition) on a Ubuntu 18.04 VPS server. Ant Media Server is a fork of Red5. The community Edition is free, but it does have its limitations that can be unlocked by purchasing a license. It runs on Java, so we’re also installing that on our server. The server that I used in this example has Nginx installed…

May 10, 2020
Fix the Nginx module in Webmin (Ubuntu 18.04)
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Fix the Nginx module in Webmin (Ubuntu 18.04)

For a long time now, the Nginx plugin that exists for Webmin did not work after installing it on Ubuntu/Debian. I never got around to figure out how to fix this, but today I did. Here’s how to fix the Nginx plugin in Webmin on a Ubuntu server. Now in all honesty I have no idea what step of all the steps below did the trick of actually getting it…

May 6, 2020
Thunderdome Tattoos van Vlaamse Gabber Nick

Thunderdome Tattoos van Vlaamse Gabber Nick

This clip is from Spike TV. Some tattoo show, I can’t remember the name. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiN0D0srdCI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiN0D0srdCI If you like the video, you should really subscribe to my channel because YouTube wants you to do so. As you can see from the image below, I need 1000 subscribers before YouTube will start paying me money for my YouTube content. So everybody SUBSCRIBE!

Mar 31, 2020
Breaking Bad, Again
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Breaking Bad, Again

My dad still hasn’t seen Breaking Bad, but never mind that right now. I watched the whole series for the 4th or maybe 5th time now. Seems like the more you watch it, the better it gets. It’s just indescribable, so I’m not going to try again. But I do want to talk about the episode that comes before the series finale episode. I noticed today that it gives me…

Jan 12, 2020