Selfhosting

Plex remote access works fine until you move to a properly segmented network. On a flat home network, Plex can negotiate port forwarding automatically. Add VLANs and a zone-based firewall, and that negotiation silently fails. The fix is UPnP, but enabling it the wrong way creates a bigger problem than the one you’re solving. The Problem Plex uses UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) to ask your router to open and forward an external port back to the Plex server. On a UniFi setup with multiple VLANs, UPnP is disabled by default. Without it, Plex can’t register a port mapping and falls back to relaying traffic through Plex’s own servers, which is slower and not always reliable. ...

I wanted a clean publish pipeline for my Hugo blog hosted on a Netcup VPS. The goal was simple: push to the main branch in Azure DevOps, and the live site update automatically. No manual builds, no FTP. The VPS already runs Pangolin, which bundles Traefik as its reverse proxy. That meant I had an existing Docker network and a working cert resolver to plug into. The missing pieces were the Hugo serving container, a deploy user with SSH access, and an Azure Pipeline to tie it together. ...