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In the recent past, we've created three new articles that you might be interested in.

The first one is an addition to Nextcloud that allows you to edit/comment PDF files. See this article

Second is a FAQ article about how to use MusicBrainz Picard to edit the metadata of your Audio/Music files. You can find it here: click here

The last is an article about a script that allows you to shrink your database if it got too big which may happen over time if you are using the external storage app that is part of the Nextcloud-Nas-Guide. See this article

In order to make your server as secure as possible, you might consider blocking all access from outside your home network. To be able to connect to your server yourself from outside your home network afterwards, you'll need to establish a VPN connection to your home network first before you can access your server. We've implemented the whole process in a way that automatic certificate renewal via Let's Encrypt will still work after blocking the access to your server which is usually a limitation of this process but not by following this guide. Additionally, scan.nexcloud.com will still be able to scan your Nextcloud regarding security problems as well as observatory.mozilla.org.

You can find the instructions how to only allow access to your server from inside your home network here: click here

If you've followed this guide, you will have configured automatic updates. Those get executed every saturday at 18:00 and will cause a reboot of your server afterwards. This is especially problematic if you've configured Pi-hole as your local DNS server for your home network since any DNS request will not work for as long as the server reboots and the Pi-hole isn't reachable. Also, if you've installed Pi-hole it will try to update itself every saturday at 19:30 which causes the same effect if an update is available.

To fix this, you can change the time when the updates get executed. Here is how to do this (instructions)

There are two new options available that make your server even more secure.

You can find the instructions how and why you should enable the Firewall on your server here: click here

The instructions how and why you should harden your SSH configuration are here: click here