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 […]

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 […]

Build your own livestream server on Ubuntu 18.04 with Nginx, RTMP, Ffmpeg, HLS, SSL, VideoJS.

I've made another YouTube video in preparation for an upcoming video. It shows how to create your own VPS server and perform some basic steps.

This clip is from Spike TV. Some tattoo show, I can't remember the name. 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 […]

I made a video for YouTube that shows a collection of random funny clips from Twitch. Enjoy!!

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 […]

Update 30-7-2023 - This post is a bit old. I have written a new article on the subject. Check it out here: https://www.ustoopia.nl/featured/block-countries-based-on-geo-data-with-ufw-firewall/ I was noticing some really strange requests in my web server's log files on a VPS that I manage. Requests that seem to be focused on finding vulnerabilities or exploits. Turns out, […]

In this article I will show you all the steps you will need to set up DNS-over-HTTPS to Cloudflared on a Raspberry Pi that's running Pi-Hole on RaspBian Stretch OS. This is called an Argo Tunnel. Now you might think to yourself; What does all this even mean? Let me explain... A Raspberry Pi is […]

As an old fart, I remember playing games like Half-Life and Half-Life II and of course Counter-Strike when it was still just a beta mod for HL. I played Counter-Strike for countless and many of times. Also, I played Half-Life and HL2 (source) even more. This is why I can really appreciate this docu video […]

Many good things are coming next summer. This is one of them! The other one being classic servers of course. And yes, I'm a middle-aged adult man who loves both these things.

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IMPORTANT UPDATE! These guides may be outdated. Please see the new guide here: https://www.ustoopia.nl/featured/nginx-rtmp-hls-ssl-videojs-on-ubuntu-18-04/ I made a couple of YouTube video's with some instructions on how to set up your own private live-stream server using Nginx running on Ubuntu 18.04. . Click on the CONTINUE READING link below to see a copy of the variables […]

Gutenberg is a feature that has been under development for a while now, will be released with version 5 of WordPress in the very near future. Until that time, it can be installed as a WP Plugin if you want to try it out. I'm pretty excited about this, cause it looks pretty awesome to […]

Today I was in a conversation and I wanted to refer to a very famous rule that belongs to "the main rules of the internet", but I couldn't remember it so that conversation went weird really fast. So after I googled it, and it turns out I was trying to refer to rule 34 (There […]

And with BFA I mean the new Word of Warcraft expansion Battle for Azeroth. This new expansion will be released exactly one week from now. The last expansion, Legion, was one of the best expansions we've seen over the years. I've enjoyed it very much. But to be honest, I stopped playing World of Warcraft […]