September 24, 2025 • 47 mins
The Unraid Content Creator OGs unite in a a long-overdue chat about Unraid, content creation, real-world homelab security, rack tours, future video collabs, and more.
Ramy shares how a personal need led him to Unraid and Docker, why the community pulled him back to YouTube, and what’s on deck for Ibracorp. We compare media server stacks (Plex vs Jellyfin vs Emby), talk reverse proxies vs. VPN-only access, walk through Ramy’s rack and Ed’s upcoming encrypted-array auto-unlock plugin, and swap practical security tips for Unraiders.
We also announce upcoming Spaceinvader One × Ibracorp collabs—drop your ideas in the comments so we make the videos you want!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi Unraiders and welcome back to another episode
of the Uncast Show.
Now, it's been a little whilesince we've done an interview on
the channel and today we have avery, very special guest.
For anyone who's been in theUnraid community for more than a
few years, this man needs nointroduction.
He's one of the originalcontent creators and he's helped
thousands of us get ourservices up and running, and
(00:21):
he's actually just returned toYouTube and it's been celebrated
by everyone.
So please, everyone, give awarm welcome to Rami from
EbraCorp.
Rami, absolutely awesome tohave you here, my friend.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Thank you, Ed, for having me on the show.
Mate, let me say it's been afew years in the making, but
it's a pleasure to finally hookup together.
Everybody's asked for it forthe last few years, so it feels
good hook up together.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Everybody's asked for it for the last few years, so
it feels good, yeah.
Yeah, we've finally done it, um, and it's great to finally meet
you.
We, you know, we spoke a fewdays ago during the week, and
we've been like emailing eachother, discussing ideas of
collaborations and things wemight do.
Now I think a lot of peoplelistening they're obviously
going to think that spaceinvader 1 and ebra corp on the
same screen is a big moment,because we're kind of a bit like
the ogs of the unread creatorworld, aren't we rami?
(01:07):
So who do you want to be?
Snoop dog or dr dray?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I'll take dray on this occasion, but, um, either
is a good option, right, I don'tthink there's a competition
there, but no, look, I thinkit's true.
Man, we started uh, you know,at least I started back in 2020.
You started a lot earlier thanI did, and people have been
loving our content since then,so it only made sense to finally
meet up together, hopefully getsome more content out together
(01:32):
as well.
You know, what do you rememberabout the community when you
first started back in 2020, ramioh apart from the videos, the
occasional videos that we hadout it was mainly forums and the
community still felt prettysmall in the Unraid world, like
not really many people knewabout it.
I felt maybe the company at thetime still felt pretty young,
(01:54):
you know, in that kind of earlystages.
And now, when I look back in2025, it's just amazing how much
of a staple item Unraid'sbecome across the environment.
So, yeah, it's a very differentplay playground than we had
definitely yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
You know what actually got you started with
unraid in the first place.
How did you actually find theos?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
uh, so yeah, I um, I have a sister with a disability,
so my my approach was I neededsomething easy for her to be
able to watch media, and Plexwas that option.
So I went down the deep dive ofyou know how can I host Plex?
How can I make it easy formyself?
Obviously, I had a little bitof sysadmin background, so I
(02:38):
wasn't too worried about tryingsomething new.
But you know, when Unraid camealong and that was my first
introduction to Docker as well,mind you, I had no experience
with Docker whatsoever a way tokind of click and install things
and I was like you know what?
This is great, so what?
Yeah, anyway, I started lookingon YouTube.
I found you you're one of myfirst kickoff inspirations, mate
so I thought this is awesome.
(03:00):
You know someone's covering itas well, I can follow along and
it's been great.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah, well, you know someone's covering it as well, I
can follow along um, and it'sbeen great yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I had to put you through having to listen to my
voice all that time ago.
I'm sure my microphone was alot worse back then, like you
were.
No, you were a diamond in therough um, as I was finding
content.
I think one of my biggestgripes with content creators at
the time was they tend to waffleon so much.
Um, you know, you could get 20minutes into a video and still
not be at the point of the videoyet.
So I thought, well, I'm goingto go ahead and try and make
some kind of see what peoplethink and took some learnings
(03:32):
from yourself as well.
And here we are Awesome.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah.
So a while back, a postappeared on the Unraid subreddit
titled I miss EbroCorp andSpace Invader 1, and it
absolutely blew up.
So what was it like for youseeing that massive outpouring
of?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
support from the community.
That was huge, mate.
I mean I was taking a very longbreak from the channel, just
focusing on life and kids andand all the rest that comes with
it, and so I thought I justdidn't have time.
But when I saw the post and sawhow many people agreed and said
you, you know, hey, we'd lovefor them to come back.
We really missed their content,the way they presented things,
(04:09):
broke down ideas, that was kindof like a kick up the butt to
just get back into gear and sayyou know what?
We have an audience here thatwants and likes our work.
I would love to be able to keepserving them and giving them
stuff that helps.
And you know, part of what wedo and I'm sure you might agree,
ed is we like to educate and welike to take what could be
(04:34):
technical or complex things andtry to make it easy for people
to follow along, because mypersonal belief is the more
people we can get into, you know, whether it's self-hosting or
open source is a good thing.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Definitely.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah, that's one of my main inspirations.
But yeah, the Reddit post, mate, it was unbelievable.
I mean, you saw it.
You saw how many people werescreaming for us to come back
and pump out some content, soit's been good.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
What caused your kind of break in content creation?
I know that you've had, youknow, two children.
I'm not sure if the communitykind of realizes you've had two
children in the last four years,isn't it, Rami?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, they're four years old now.
Yeah, turned four a couple ofmonths ago.
So that can take a lot of time,especially in those first
couple of years, just trying tosupport the wife and the family.
And then on top of that, yeah,my work priorities started
really piling up as well and Iwas concentrating on a lot of
things at once and for anyonewith a day job you can imagine
(05:31):
it kind of sucks a little bit ofthe creativity out of you when
you haven't done so much on.
So I guess I just needed alittle bit of time to make the
time, if that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Yeah, I remember in the post you said you didn't
want to churn out content thatwas poor quality just for the
sake of kind of youtubealgorithms.
I think that's a really goodthing and a lot of creators feel
that um, but you know, it isquite easy to burn out as well.
A lot of people don't realizethat a video that um is 20
minutes long that we mightcreate it didn't take us 40
(06:04):
minutes to make you know ittakes a lot longer, takes a lot
longer than that, and I've justnoticed this.
You have another.
There's another fine productfrom IbraCorp that's come out
just a couple of days ago onPangolin.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Yeah, yeah, that was a heavily requested one.
That one, yeah, lots of room to, can you?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
can you describe what pangolin is and why people
might be interested in checkingout that video?
Rami?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
yeah, definitely.
Um, so pangolin is a reverseproxy slash tunnel.
Um, slash, you know, areplacement for your current way
to access your resourcesremotely.
Really really cool application.
I would suggest a lot of peoplecheck it out, even if it's not
with our video, but the projectis great the ability for people
(06:56):
to replace something likeCloudflare Tunnels.
You know we have a lot of ouraudience that prefer self-hosted
solutions, so I thought youknow we have to show this one
off, and it was great to workwith them as well.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
So does it allow people to get around
carrier-grade NAT if they've gotthat like?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
a Cloudflare tunnel would they can yep correct.
A lot of the time they usesomething like a VPS to set it
up on rather than directly onUnraid.
So we wanted to demonstrate theUnraid aspect.
Wanted to replace a reverseproxy.
Here's a great option, but Iunraid aspect wanted to replace
a reverse proxy.
Here's a great option, but Ireckon the next one we might do.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
We'll do that vps tunneling option as well.
Yeah, that that'd be.
That'd be a really awesomething, because you know you can
have a vps for, like you know,five bucks a month, can't you?
Yeah, yeah so it'd be nice tohave a self-hosted cloudflare
tunnel that you don't have toworry about.
A lot of people worry aboutstreaming, plex, jellyfin, mb
and things through CloudflareTunnel getting in trouble for
too much data going through.
(07:48):
So with a VPS, if you've gotunlimited data, that would be a
really great thing, I think.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Five bucks a month, as opposed to paying the pro
price of Cloudflare, for example, to be allowed to use sort of
caching.
Kind of makes sense, doesn't it?
You want to probably host ityourself.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah, five bucks is just a cup of coffee, so that
kind of gives me a little bit ofa good segue to ask you some
kind of quickfire questions.
I used to do this a lot with myinterviews, just to get to know
you.
So, coffee or tea, rami, whatdo you prefer?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Coffee, Coffee first.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Yeah, coffee, good man.
I've got my coffee here, a bitgoing cold on the desk and a
nerd version Butter FS or ZFS.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I have never been able to wrap my head around ZFS
properly, so I'm going to sayButter FS, just based on my
knowledge.
Set Right cool.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Let's throw in a really controversial one, and
you have to give the rightanswer here, so I'll never speak
to you again.
Star wars or star trek starwars yeah, good man.
Well, they're both awesome.
Really, there was no rightanswer I.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I actually liked star trek as well, but I never got
into it as much.
Um, I wasn't part of that crowd, I suppose.
So I just got into star wars,and that was pretty late in my
life.
But mate, what a cinematicmasterpiece that is.
But I never got into it as much.
I wasn't part of that crowd, Isuppose.
So I just got into Star Wars,and that was pretty late in my
life.
But mate, what a cinematicmasterpiece that is.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Yeah, I've been running a container called
what's it called?
Ersatz TV and by the time thisvideo goes out, that Ersatz TV
video will be out on my SpaceInvader 1 channel.
And it's a really coolapplication, rami.
I'm not sure if you've everheard of it before.
It allows you to create yourown tv channel, basically.
(09:30):
So it connects either to yourmedia library or you can connect
it to your media server,jellyfin, mb or plex, and you
basically make your own tv showlike live tv okay, you make
little collections.
So I've got my kind of 1990s andand noughties sci-fi, things
like dark angel kind of startrek, next generation, all my
(09:51):
kind of favorites and you caneither have it.
So you literally schedule theum the program you can have like
6 pm, it does two hours of startrek, 7 pm it does two hours of
Stargate, what have you.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yeah, so your own TV channels right.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Basically, yeah, and you then just connect that up as
an HD home run channel to Plex,mb or Jellyfin, and so all of
your people who you share thechannel with can watch these
live things.
And what I find so cool is youstart watching something you'd
never normally watch.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
And I found some sci-fi shows.
I thought, wow, I've neveractually heard of this one.
It's actually pretty cool andbecause you can't fast forward,
rewind.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
You can't assign it with what you've got.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah, and you can actually put adverts in as well.
A lot of people download a1980s advert pack and so you can
actually have it.
So like a 1980s advert pack andso you can actually have it.
So it does filling out the kindof gaps.
So like if the TV show is 40minutes and it needs to do an
hour, it can kind of putfive-minute blocks of ads during
that hour to kind of pad it outto the hour, so everything
stays.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Is this DizQ TV?
Is that what you're talkingabout?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
No, it's called Ursatz TV.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Ursatz.
Okay, yeah, I did try disque tv.
Oh, I'm probably mispronouncingthat, like everything else with
my accent, but um, that wascool and it is a little bit
dated now, so I'd be great, it'dbe great to see your video and
check this one out, because Iactually quite liked it.
Kids found it quite useful, too, to have a kid's channel that I
(11:21):
could just schedule a wholebunch of stuff on and they'll
watch it as it as it's, liveyeah, it's.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
It's really fun, like if you're kind of working and
you, you can chuck it up onanother screen just in the
background.
It's just playing randomepisodes, you don't have to
think about it.
I was speaking to a friend ofmine the other day and he was
saying, wow, that's going to beso good for my mum because she
likes the show Golden Girls, his, his mum's in in her 90s and so
choosing the shows through plexand that kind of thing is more
(11:48):
difficult for her.
So just to have it that she canjust kind of turn it on, it
just plays random episodes, oryeah, I'm really enjoying that.
It's probably my favoritefavorite container at the moment
.
It's something that I didn'tknow I'd like as much as I do
yeah, get it out there.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I can't wait to see that one.
That'll be great.
Yeah, people will love that.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Anyways, we went off a little bit of a side tangent
there, so I'm going to ask you aquestion that can end
friendships.
When you're editing a configfile tabs or spaces- Spaces.
Yeah, me too.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I've been burnt with tabs many times and I've been
burnt with tabs many times andI've been slapped over the head
for it.
So definitely spaces yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
And last one.
So say you're setting up amedia server for a friend, are
you?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
going to point them to Plax or Jellyfin.
I'm going to say it depends onthe friend.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Yeah Well, it depends .
If you like them, you'll sayJellyfin, If you don't like them
, plax.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yeah, pretty much.
But I think if they have alittle bit of tech savviness, I
would say go for Jellyfin, youknow, because they'll be able to
at least troubleshoot anythingthat might come up or know where
to look.
I feel like still, if I'm beingcompletely honest, plex is
still the most polished mediaserver out there.
I could be wrong, people cancorrect me, but I just still
(13:06):
think it's still the mostpolished, like it just works
most of the time.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I think you're 100% right Rami.
Yeah, but you know I love theopen source aspect of Jellyfin.
That's why I've been coveringit a lot lately, just so people
can jump on board, because if itcan be supported more and given
enough donations for people todevelop it off their own back,
(13:33):
it can be just as good as Plex.
The only difference is, yeah,plex is a private model, right,
so they've got a lot of capitalto keep building on the app.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
That's probably all it is of capital to keep
building on the app.
That's probably all it is.
So, out of the features thatyou see in plex, what would you
love to be able to see injellyfin that isn't there?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
that is in plex I don't think there is any
features in plex necessarilythat I uh couldn't get out of
jellyfin.
Um, whether it's all out of thebox, I don't know.
It might be a differentquestion though what about
yourself?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
um, I don't use plex.
I never have to be honest.
I I originally.
I originally used um, plex andmb and tried them at the same
time and I just didn't likeplex's interface.
I really liked mb and um I Irun jellyfin and mb side by side
at the moment beautiful.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yeah, nice, I did like envy as well.
I just gave that a trial, youknow, a couple years ago.
Um, no complaints, though, itran great talking about um, um,
containers and things.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
I've probably got a question that everyone's dying
to know.
Give us a verbal tour of yourserver.
What's your main unraid serverrunning these days and also what
hardware is running, thesoftware that's running what
you're running?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Yeah, so my primary server.
Well, my whole rack is sittingright back behind me there.
It's grown over the last fewyears so we've got a unified
switch in there connecting backto the UDM Pro.
Inside I have a Dell R720 rackserver.
That's the new fresh startUnray zero to hero kind of
(15:11):
server.
I use that as my play bench andthen underneath that is a
Silverstone case.
I did that whole video aroundbuilding it from scratch, which
is a learning experience for me,because I don't know about you,
ed, I've never done a rackserver with the whole HD
enclosures in the front, sothat's just the case.
(15:32):
But in terms of the hardwarerunning on it, I've got an
i9-10900 using iGPU.
On there I've got 64 gig of RAM.
I got to meet one of my Discordmembers the other day on voice
chat and the guy has I'm notgoing to drop his name in case
he doesn't want to, but he haslike a terabyte of RAM.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Oh man, wow.
First time I've ever seen thatthat's insane yeah that is
insane.
I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
He had a whole story around how that happened, but I
just couldn't believe it.
I was like a terabyte of ram bythe time.
So he runs game servers onthere.
That's what he was saying.
Um, that's pretty much thehardware.
It doesn't take too much.
I don't run a graphics card.
I've always wanted to, but Ifound for my use case I guess I
didn't really need it.
Um, you, you might be differenton your your end, but yeah, I
(16:20):
know you've actually coveredgraphics cards quite a bit in
terms of media service, so I didfollow along on all that.
But for myself, I think theIntel iGPU seems to do a great
job on its own, so I've neededto.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah, I think the Intel iGPU does a better job
than you know, something like aQuadro P2000 by NVIDIA for
transcoding.
It's just so much moreefficient, much more power
efficient.
But are you kind of interestedin vms and that kind of thing?
Is that something you kind ofdo or do you tend to?
Just, you're just like a dockerman and, um you, you run
(16:53):
physical machines as opposed tovirtual machines no, so I don't
run any virtual machines on myunraid server.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
that's really mainly my media server.
There's a couple ofmiscellaneous apps, but most of
it these days is doing mediaautomation and Plex and Jellyfin
now as well.
Sorry, but for virtual machinesand things like LXC containers
I use Proxmox and I've got thatinstalled on our cloud server.
(17:22):
I kind of hate calling it acloud server.
It's just a server with HetznerCloud servers somebody else's
server.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Hetzner are great, aren't they?
They're really good.
I bought of Hetzner one oftheir kind of used servers from
the server auction.
I think I pay about $29 a monthand I've got, I think, six
terabytes hard drive and acouple of 512 SSDs and an old
Intel 6700, I think it is.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
But it's great yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Yeah, my partners Hawksy and Duck the late Duck
introduced me to Hedstner andhere in Australia we get no
really good options like that.
You know you'd be paying $300,$400 Australian for half of what
you get from Headster.
Wow, obviously you get thelatency reduction.
It's going to be here in theoceanic area, but I just can't
(18:17):
go wrong.
I think I pay 80 euros for thiskitted out server with 128 gig
of RAM and I just run a bunch ofcontainers on there.
Yeah, that's been good.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Yeah, so we'll put a link to Hetzner, I think, in the
description of this video.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Yeah, please do.
Maybe one day they'll supportus.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I did ask them to once, but you know if you're
listening, hetzner, I did askyou when I was doing a video on
installing unraid on a hetznerserver.
I made a script that woulddownload the um unraid and,
using their rescue media, itwould put it onto a usb flash
drive and then reboot.
I said would you like, wouldyou sponsor me?
And they said no very curiouslike that.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Uh, what do we do?
So we've just installed Proxmoxdirectly on the server, so it's
running on the host, which,with a little bit of trickery
and man, it really takesadvantage of something.
Rather than paying for multipleVPSs, you just host your own
static IP.
Great.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
So is that where you're going to put your
pangolin when you're running onVPS?
Do you think?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Yeah, I think I'll just do that.
I'll run a small container.
The networking side I haven'tquite figured out yet because
we've got PFSense on there andkind of understand how we're
running.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
I don't want to get into the kind of weeds too much
in this kind of podcast, but howdo you find the stateless
firewall with Hetzner?
I find it a real painpersonally.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
I don't even use it.
I don't think.
Is that on by default?
Speaker 1 (19:44):
you mean, yeah, it's just a stateless firewall so
it's very difficult for doingkind of various things.
Okay, and so what services areyou running on your server?
So just kind of media things.
Anything else that's not mediathat might be running on Unraid.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Anything that's not media related.
I've got an application that Ilike a lot called Notifier
Really good developer Nitsuaworked on that and that, apart
from notifying you about all theservices you've got plugged
into it, it has a wide range ofthings it plugs into.
It hooks up to something calledthe Trash Guides as well I kind
(20:24):
of covered that in past and youmight be familiar, ed, with
this but it allows automaticsyncing of those profiles too,
so you can bring those down toall of your automation apps and
make things a little smoother.
It's mostly hands-off.
I really don't touch the servertoo much, apart from making
videos for people, and then I'vegot a couple of reverse proxy
things running like traffic andNginx proxy manager, yeah, so
(20:48):
anytime I want to get somethingexternal or run that yeah, your
traffic videos were reallyawesome, rami, I must say you
know thank you.
I can't take all the credit.
That was definitely a team,team effort there.
That was a hard one.
We actually had some good inputfrom traffic as well, which
always helps, oh, oh, wow, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
So what a lot of people don't realize is you know
there is like a kind ofcommunity behind EbraCorp.
You know, not just the YouTubechannel, but you've got a
Discord channel.
You know you've got EbraDocs,github, et cetera.
Can you tell us a bit aboutEbraCorp, the EbraCorp ecosystem
?
Speaker 2 (21:24):
That's the word I'm looking for.
Um, I'd love to.
Yeah, so I.
When I started off makingcontent, I realized, all right,
there was a lot of like-mindedpeople.
Um should develop a space forthem to come in and share their
ideas.
And one thing I've kept to my inthe back of my head this whole
time, the past few years, is I'mnot the smartest person in the
room.
In every scenario there arepeople that and you've met them,
(21:45):
ed these are people that aresuper brainiacs, man.
They know stuff back to front.
The part where they maystruggle is trying to get that
concept out to others tounderstand, right?
So a lot of the developers Imeet, for example, are super
intelligent people and sometimesthey just don't have the time
or the energy to try andtranslate it for people that may
maybe not as super intelligent,right, but I believe their
(22:08):
product is so good that I wantto get it out to as many people
as I can.
So, anyway, we create thisDiscord server, people start
joining and then I realized thisreally is a communal thing.
So I want, if I'm going tocover a topic, I try to reach
out to the developers first.
Ask them hey, we want to coverthis in a video.
Is there anything you'd like toshare, that you'd want to
(22:29):
highlight or anything like that,and try to make it
collaborative, and with orwithout them.
If that doesn't work or it doeswork, we take that feedback and
then I ask pretty much thegroup and the community what do
you guys want to see?
I say I would love to see avideo on this.
What do you guys want to see?
I say I would love to see avideo on this that makes my job
(22:49):
easier as a content creator,because I can make exactly what
people want right and at thesame time, I get to learn.
Because I get to learn from allthese people, you know.
They show me how to do it all,or they might help me and
provide input on a video I'malready doing myself and correct
me as I'm going.
So I get to keep learning and Ithink that's better than just
pumping out content, assuming Iknow everything.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
That's really great, rami, how you get the feedback
from the actual developers.
That's really cool that you canget that relationship going.
I think that brings a hugeamount of value to your videos
and I think that's a reallygreat thing.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Can I ask you, ed, before we move on?
I want to know more about youas well, mate, and your channel.
I think a lot of people wouldlove to know more about you.
I don't know if you've coveredit already, but I'd certainly
like to know sure.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
So I started my youtube in 2016.
There wasn't any unraid contentand I've kind of fell into the
unraid content making.
I'd used unraid since 2012, onand off.
I really kind of got intoUnraid, you know, I'd say
seriously.
When Unraid 6 hit and there wasVMs and Docker containers, you
(23:51):
know I thought, wow, this isjust awesome.
And you know, I started my kindof computer life, I would say,
with computers like Commodore 64, Atari 800, the early kind of
like IBM PCs, and in those daysit was just so fun to me and I
absolutely loved it.
I've worked in IT for oh Godsince about 1998.
(24:15):
And it kind of got more andmore boring, I found as the
years went on.
Kind of IT, just like you know,it's always a fun subject, but
it kind of got a bit kind ofstale.
And then unraid 6 came out andlike docker containers, vms,
like just so easy to do, and itjust put that same spark of fun
back into kind of computing thatI felt I had when I was a child
(24:37):
with my kind of atari 800 andjust tinkering with it and
feeling I can do something withit.
I used to sit in my bedroom likewriting stupid games.
One One was called light bulbLarry on my Atari 800, where I
kind of put little bulbs in asocket on a platform and jumping
over things you know, just tobe able to make stuff on your
own and do things.
I found that you know reallygreat.
(24:58):
Um, I think it was about thesame time it must've been as
windows eight came out.
You know, you're kind of likeseeing things like windows 8 and
then you know you get unraid 6yeah, it's like you know,
absolutely absolutely nocomparison.
Anyway, I'm kind of drifting offhere again, but my daughter
said she wanted to do a youtubechannel and I was going you know
(25:19):
, you know, go for it, just doit.
And she's going oh, I'm tooembarrassed, I'm too shy.
I said I'll tell you what ifyou do a YouTube channel, I'll
do one as well.
So I started doing YouTube.
I think the first video I didwas actually I did it with my
brother as we, I think, put somesort of liquid cooler on a GPU
or something ridiculous and Ithink it's called the frost
(25:42):
frostite or something cooler,and I quite enjoyed just making
the videos.
And my daughter a week latersaid that she has changed her
mind and she was on to kind ofsomething else that she wanted
to do.
I think she wanted to try somekind of sport.
I think it was horse riding thatshe wanted to do then and
YouTube had become a second sortof thought and I thought I
(26:05):
actually really enjoyed it and Iwas really into using unraid.
I've been using it a long timeand I thought there's just no
videos on unraid at all.
There was just absolutelynothing.
So I thought I'm gonna startdoing them.
So and I apologize to everyonewho has to listen to my early
videos with my macbook promicrophone yeah, oh yeah, I
(26:25):
started with a headset, mate.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Well, we'll start somewhere, right?
Yeah, yeah, that's an awesomestory, though I used to get a
lot of complaints.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
I used to get about the sound quality in my videos,
so hopefully it's better now.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Like we said the other day, I think it's
something you only realize onceyou start really making a lot of
content, how important thesound is and yeah yeah, you
start to appreciate.
Okay, I'll probably need tosplurge and buy a good
microphone because people wantthat good sound yeah, there's
nothing worse than watching ayoutube video and the sound's
just hard, hard.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
You know, I'd rather watch a youtube video with crap
video and good sound than goodvideo and crap sound.
You, you know, I think mostpeople are the same.
But you know a lot of peoplemight wonder.
You know where I've been withthe Space Invader 1 channel.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
A lot of people might not know that I started working
officially for Lime Technologyat the beginning of this year
and I'm making content on theUncast channel.
Various things like you knowinterviews like Rami and I are
doing right now, various kind oftutorials and reviews of things
like we reviewed the linkstation and to run my own
(27:35):
business, an MSP, for probably20 years and it got to a kind of
point in my life where I wasthinking I'd quite like a change
and the opportunity came up towork full time for Lime
(27:56):
Technology Best move I ever did.
Such a great, great team we'vegot and I really kind of wanted
to get in into doing that.
So I wanted to reallyconcentrate on my role there and
I thought I want to get theuncast channel up to 10 000
subscribers.
So I didn't want to be puttingout content on my own channel
taking away um kind of views tothe uncast.
(28:19):
I wanted to build that up firstbut we're over 10 000
subscribers now.
I think we're on about 11 and ahalf.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Yeah, I just checked in the other day.
It was really steaming ahead.
It's good.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
So yeah, I think I can start making some Space
Invader 1 things.
I've got a whole load of thingsin the pipeline.
Also, just in my spare timerecently I've been working on
various little plugins andthings Like.
One thing that I've beenworking on is a way to actually
start the unraid array that'sencrypted without having to put
in an encryption key.
(28:48):
So I'm going to kind ofannounce it what it is here now.
Um, as I finish the plugin now.
Um, so I use.
I did a video years ago.
I'm not sure if you useencrypted disks on your server,
rami, or you just not, but I'mlistening now because it sounds
interesting you know I like tohave encrypted disks on my
server.
The main reason being is notthat I've got like super secret
(29:09):
kind of NASA data there that youknow, if anyone found it it's
going to be really bad.
But if one of my drives goeswrong and it's quite a new drive
and I want to RMA it back tothe company, I don't have to
worry about my data being therebecause it's encrypted and you
know it's not going to kind ofjust get recycled and maybe
churned out to someone else andthey could, like you know it's a
good point find the data onthere.
(29:30):
So that's that's really my mainreason.
I want the encryption.
So the pain is always where you.
You know you start up yourunraid server and you've got to
put the encryption key in.
And yeah, you could have likean encryption key one, two,
three, four if you want to bereally dumb, um, but you need a
long, decent encryption key andthat can be a pain to type in.
So years ago I thought how canwe get around that?
(29:51):
So I made a script that justbasically downloads it from a
web server in a in a private ftpplace.
But then that script was in thego script and obviously if
someone stole your server, thatscript's there and they could.
They could decrypt the server.
So the server boot up, do that,download the key, unlock the
drives automatically.
(30:11):
So a lot of people use that formany years and I think most
people who auto unlock theirservers do still do that.
But yeah, you can delete thekey from online if you find out
your server's been stolen butsay you're away for a month,
your server gets stolen, theyplug it into the internet and
they load it up.
All of your data is going to bethere.
Yeah, so you know, for peoplewho might be running kind of
(30:34):
like a small business they mightbe, you know, have more kind of
important data.
They may have financial data onthere that could be a real
issue if a thief steals it andthey just happen to then go
through and find other datathat's more valuable than the
server itself.
So I really wanted to think ofa way of actually mitigating
that.
So basically, how encryptionworks is it uses lux encryption,
(30:56):
which saying this more for thekind of audience I know you know
this already around me but youcan have more than one key.
I think in lux too, it's 32keys we can have, so you can
have more than one key.
I think in Lux too, it's 32keys we can have, so you can
have multiple keys.
So what I figured is we keepthe main key that you'd normally
type in, and so what the plugindoes is it generates its own
dynamic key.
It takes the serial number orthe MAC address of your primary
(31:17):
NIC and it also reaches out toyour router, takes the MAC
address of the router and itcombines them and hashes it into
a separate key.
And so then when the serverstarts up, if it's connected to
the router.
It can always generate the keydynamically and it will create
that key on boot, put it in andunlock the drives.
So then if someone steals yourserver, they're very unlikely to
(31:37):
steal your router and yourinternet and try and set it all
up there.
They're going to steal just theserver.
They'll leave the router behindand then you know, it will auto
start and it won't be able tomake the dynamic key.
It'll be plugged into adifferent router and so the key
will be incorrect and it won'tauto start.
But then you can always get inwith your original key, so it
(31:57):
just gives you an extra key andallows the auto start.
So I've been working on thatprobably since January, on and
off, and surely you're going todo a video?
Adding more and more things, soyeah, so that's the video that's
coming this week after theAirsats one, and I'll release
the plug-in officially.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Mate, look at us.
We're coming back with a punch,aren't we now?
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Yeah, and you know, I think, Rami, how many videos
have you done since like theReddit post?
Speaker 2 (32:25):
It.
Rami, how many videos have youdone since the Reddit post?
It must be kind of like what?
Four, five?
Yeah, look, I went a little bittoo hard that first week
probably.
I was a bit too excited.
Man, you get pumped up, youknow.
So, yeah, I think I've doneabout five and a couple of
shorts.
You know, trying to do a bitmore of the shorts and I just
want the audience to know aswell.
You know I've avoided and Ed'sprobably the same right when I
(32:46):
was saying to you, ed, that Ilike putting good quality
content.
I'm not always about thealgorithm.
There is also a point whereyou're like your channel just
can't grow without doing somesort of stuff.
You know that YouTube likes,even though they say it's what
the audience likes.
So it's important to do acouple of things like shorts,
and I'm just trying to do a bitmore of that.
But the main content is alwaysgoing to be those flagship
(33:09):
videos we do.
They're the most fun as well.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Looking ahead, you've come back with a clear vision?
Obviously, absolutely.
What would you say is the grandplan for IbraCorp over the next
year?
Now you're back.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Yeah, great question.
Um, I've been thinking aboutthis yeah, a lot over the past
few weeks and my clearest visionis to keep growing the channel,
to keep getting more involvedwith a lot of these projects
that I'll probably put off inthe past few years because I
didn't have the time so I caninvest a bit more, more time in
that and ultimately, uh, try andreally sit youtube at the front
(33:47):
.
I'm trying my best to do thatnow rather than, you know, kind
of like a side thing, I'm tryingto make it more of the main
thing for us here, because itjust gives me that creative joy
that I just don't get out of.
Like you said earlier, it getsboring, and you couldn't have
said it better, man.
You know I do it day in, dayout.
There's only so much you can dobefore.
(34:08):
You just need somethingdifferent, and doing this gives
me something different almostevery week.
You know we can pick and choosewhat we want to cover or how we
want to cover it, and you'rewriting plugins for yourself,
and you know what kind of jobgives you that opportunity.
As often, usually you kind ofhave to just toe the line right.
So, yeah, I'm really lookingforward to the next 12 months of
(34:28):
just getting more and morecontent, and I'm hoping the
channel grows naturally becauseof it, as it has been anyway.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Um, you know everyone .
You know who doesn't knowrami's channel.
Get over to ebrocorp, hit thesubscribe button.
Like both rami and I, we wantto get to a hundred thousand
subscribers.
We need the silver plaque soyou know all of my all, everyone
watching who is a space invader.
One watcher go over to rami'schannel and just hit that
(34:55):
subscribe button please thankyou so much.
Yeah, please do you knowswitching gears a little bit
rami's um.
A lot of people don't realizeand you just mentioned it
briefly then that you know yourcareer is actually in it and you
work in cyber security.
Am I correct?
Speaker 2 (35:09):
correct, yeah, over the past two years, I think I've
been doing that rolespecifically.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Yeah, and um, how do you find does that tie in in any
way to your kind of youtubecontent?
Do you find that's kind ofhelpful in in the kind of type
of things you're doing?
Is there like a kind ofcrossover with that in any way
that you find useful?
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Yeah, there is, in the sense that I have to deal
with a lot of various differentvendors on a day-to-day basis,
or I'm looking at new productsfor my day job, so to speak,
which exposes me to a lot ofvarious different tools that are
out there.
Now, generally, we're nottalking about the same tools you
probably buy to protect yourhouse or your home network.
(35:49):
These are usually, as you know,enterprise things but what it
does give me is a bit of avisual of hey, you know, I
wonder if there's an open sourceoption of this particular tool.
Right, you know, and if thereis man, people should know about
it because I think it's areally cool idea.
I, if there is man peopleshould know about it because I
think it's a really cool idea.
I just don't know if someone athome wants to pay $20,000 to
have it, so what options do theyhave?
(36:11):
So, yeah, I do crossover allthe time.
The YouTube stuff is actuallypretty funny because I started
doing a lot more cyber awarenesstraining as well.
So my role is a cybersecurityadvisor.
That's typically what my roleis.
Well, so my role is acybersecurity advisor.
That's typically what my roleis.
So when I'm not advising, I'malso trying to bolster up
(36:31):
resilience and I'm trying a newthing for Cybersecurity
Awareness Month in October withdoing like a retro theme,
gamifying it and trying to getmore buy-in from the staff.
So trying to think outside thebox and use a bit of that
creativity.
There has been fun and you knowI bring that back to the channel
because I can pretty much shareall the, all the funny stories
(36:51):
that we we kind of get acrossthe line.
Um, cyber is one of thosethings.
You've been a lot around, a lotlonger, a lot longer than I
have ed, but it never used to becalled cyber security, just was
it security.
You know, um, pretty much youwore many hats as a sysadmin as
well.
You kind of covered that aspectanyway.
So, yeah, bringing it back tothe channel people have been
(37:14):
really keen on okay, we've gotall these awesome apps how do I
actually protect myself?
And so having that experiencewith whether it's firewalls,
next-gen firewalls, thinkinglike Cloudflare, and at that
level as well, it'll be usefulPeople will like it.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
What advice could you give to the Unraid users out
there for how they can actuallyimprove the security of not only
their Unraid server but theservices they have running on it
that they expose to theinternet?
Do you have any tips that youwould say are must do things?
What would you recommend to thecommunity for that?
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Number one, and I hope you agree with me on this,
but please do not port forwardto your Unraid server directly.
That is the first and foremostthing I'm going to start with.
You know, we've heard somehorror stories.
We've probably all done it atone point.
Don't do that.
The next best thing you can dois, if you can just avoid
opening ports at all in myopinion is your best choice and
(38:16):
if you can do it in aself-hosted way, something like
WireGuard you're laughing, youknow.
I think one of the biggestlearnings I had from when I
started even the channel, butjust me learning in Unraid as
well was do I actually needeverything reverse proxied?
Like I was just reverseproxying everything and a few
years down the line I thought tomyself I probably don't
actually need this stuffpublicly available.
(38:38):
I can.
Just A few years down the lineI thought to myself I probably
don't actually need this stuffpublicly available.
I can just VPN in and access itanywhere anyway.
Why take that risk?
So that's probably my two bigtips, yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Yeah, definitely, Like I had a friend of mine I'm
not going to say your name,Marco he literally just
forwarded port 80 before Unraidactually even had like a
password to log in to theinternet.
And then one day he rung me upand goes ed, all of my data's
gone and I went really and, um,he just forwarded port 80
(39:11):
because he wanted to be able towhen he's at work, access his
unraid server and like yeah sonever forward ports, because
then you're, you know, relianton, even if it's an application
you know you're reliant on the.
How good is the security of thatapplication?
Speaker 2 (39:29):
and generally it's all bots.
You know it's bots scanning 247 and they're going to beat you
nine times out of ten.
So just don't take a chance ifyou can avoid it.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Yeah, so that's a really good point.
You know, rami like it's bots,because I think a lot of people
they kind of think, well, no onewould bother trying to hack me.
I'm just a little home user.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
But bots don't give a .
I was going to almost swearthen.
Yeah, bots don't give A rat'searlobe about that.
Yeah, thank you.
Thank you, rami.
Thank you for pulling me out ofa hole there.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Yeah, so, um, yeah, no um, definitely just protect
yourself, man.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Don't even do it if you can avoid it but you know, I
think, um, I was the same aswell, I'd reverse proxy things.
You know, for the sake of it Ithink I don't need to be reverse
proxying that.
But I think, um, now we've gottail scale in unraid.
I'm not sure if that's somethingyou know, you use a lot rami,
but love it yep love it it'sgreat because you can give
access to not only yourself, butyou can just send a share link
(40:31):
to a friend like oh you know, doyou want to be able to access,
um, this container?
You know you put tail scaleinto it.
Then give them access just tothat one that's great use case.
I haven't even, yeah, gone thatfar well, one use case I really
like um.
I I'm a big fan of vault warden.
I'm not sure if that'ssomething you use yourself, rami
, it's a, you know, for everyonelistening, it's a self-hosted
(40:53):
password manager, um.
But with vault warden you haveto use a domain.
So I don't like using a domain,so I've got to have like a
passwordmydomaincom.
You have to have that becausethe clients use it, that you
have in your web browser to beable to fill in the passwords.
They need that and it needs tohave an ssl certificate.
(41:13):
But I never used to like havingit exposed to the internet.
You know, even though they'vegot very good security in the
software, it was still someonecould go to that webpage and it
would say do you want to log in?
I didn't like that.
So I thought, well, tailscalecan fix this.
So what I did is I just made an, a record for passwordmydomain.
I installed Swag, which is myfavorite reverse proxy
(41:38):
personally, which is just anNginx reverse proxy, and I put
Tailscale into that so it hadits own Tailscale IP.
And then what I did is I madean, a record for
passwordmydomaincom to thatTailscale IP and so on my
Tailnet.
It would resolve, it would havean SSL certificate.
(41:58):
That's great.
On my on my tail net, it wouldresolve it, would.
It would have an SSLcertificate and so long as I'm
connected to tail scale, I canaccess my, my password manager
and my wife as well.
I put tail scale on her phoneand stuff, so all of her
passwords, and so it's still but, it, but it's it's linked into
tail scale.
So I love tail scale.
I of tailscale, I think it's.
(42:23):
Yeah, man, um, ever since, uh,I mean, we started with the
docker container and then whenit came out as a plug-in it was,
I remember you did thetailscale.
Yeah, you were the.
I think you were the firstperson that actually um showed
me tailscale, like I rememberthe docker container yeah,
thanks to hawksy on that one.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
But yeah, we got the video out and then now obviously
we have the plug-in.
I push everyone to the plug-in.
I say, go that.
We're hoping to do the tailscale video soon, as well as an
update.
But yeah, I use it all the time.
So all my stuff.
You know, when I'm trying toSSH into my servers, first thing
I do is I fire up my tail scale, which has access to that
separate network, and I can worknormally, you know, without
(42:54):
reverse-proxy, anything, whichis great.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
Well, we've got a little bit of an announcement to
make as well, haven't we, ramito the community is Rami and I,
we're going to be doing somecollaboration videos together,
so Space Invader 1 and EbraCorpcoming together and we're going
to be making some really greatcontent for you, to the
community.
Is there anything in particularyou'd like us to cover together
?
We've got some ideas, ideas.
(43:17):
We're not going to spill whatthey are right now, but, um, if
you guys have got any ideas ofwhat you'd like rami and I to
cover together, um, we'd be veryhappy and open to any
suggestions yeah, make sure youdrop it in the comments, guys,
because that's that, we'll readthe comments and yeah and it
gives us exactly the right thingto make for you.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
So, um, feel free to jump in and subscribe that'll be
great as well to both ourchannels so you can get alerted
when we drop them yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
So I'm very excited about working with rami, working
with such a, you know, greatyoutuber who's been around for a
long time, like, like we'resaying earlier, you know,
working with my og counterpart.
I think that's going to besuper fun and, um, with rami's
kind of skills and, you know, hebrings a different angle to
things, teaches things a bitdifferent to me.
So the combination of ustogether I think we can have
(44:04):
some great collaborations andhave a whole load of fun with
you guys out there in thecommunity as well.
But anyway, um, it's been anabsolutely fantastic chat, rami,
um, this has been well overduein in my opinion, and I know all
the community, hopefully, isgoing to love it.
But before I'm going to let yougo, I'm going to just say again
(44:25):
I'm sure everyone already knows, but where can they find you?
You know, plug everything, theYouTube channel, the Discord,
the GitHub, all of it when canpeople find Rami Ibrahim?
Speaker 2 (44:34):
No worries, guys, if you want to find our channel,
it's youtubecom.
Forward slashC, forward slashat IbraCorp, and you can also
get to our website, ibracorpioor IbraCorpcom, and we'd love to
have you.
You'll find our links to ourDiscord all across all of the
socials, and we're also onTwitter as well IbraCorp.
Underscore IO, reddit, all therest, you'll find the links
(44:56):
there on our website.
But underscore io, reddit, allthe rest, you'll find the links
there on our website.
But, yeah, we'd love to haveyou.
Thank you very much, ed, formeeting me and, as a fan, as
much as I am a content creator,I'm also a fan of yours and your
work.
So thank you for your work, um,and opening up wise, I'm I'm a
fan of yours as well.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
So, yeah, we're both having a bit of a strange moment
, like being fans of each other.
So, um, but, rami, thank you somuch for your time today.
You know, and thank you foreverything you do for the unread
community.
It's people like you that makethe unread community great, and
also people like you in yourebra corp ecosystem.
I've got a question I've got toask you.
(45:32):
Ebra corp, I love the name.
It's so cool.
It reminds me of blade runner.
Yeah, that's, that's what itgives me the Blade Runner vibes.
Yeah, I'm not sure where you gotinspiration from, but I want to
know where did the name comefrom?
It's such a cool name.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
All right, perfect, perfect story.
I love Mr Robot, I love theMatrix.
I love, you know, all thatdystopian technological future.
I love all that dystopiantechnological future, I love
that stuff.
So when I had E-Corp in MrRobot, I thought, you know, I
would love the channel to bealmost people don't really know
(46:07):
what we are a little bit generic, a little bit of mystery, a
little bit, you know, dystopian.
So I thought, yeah, EbraCorp,which comes from my surname,
ibrahim.
So I just took Ibra.
All right, of course, added corp, which comes from my surname,
ibrahim, so I just took ibraright of course, added corp and
here we are, and there you go,wow, yeah, wow.
Speaker 1 (46:24):
Never thought of that .
So, yeah, it's the beginning ofyour surname.
How cool is that awesome what?
What an awesome name.
I remember you did a video along time ago.
That was kind of like ananimated video, with a man kind
of talking um, oh yeah, that waslike an advert that was my poor
, that was that was original.
Ai was it wow?
(46:45):
Yeah, you were well ahead ofthe game back then, like you
know, um, that was amazing thankyou.
Speaker 2 (46:50):
I can't say it was very good, but yeah, it was fun.
Speaker 1 (46:53):
It was fun yeah, yeah , definitely, anyway.
Um, it's an honor to have youback, rami.
You know, keep pumping out thecontent please, but don't burn
yourself out.
You don't need to do fivevideos a week.
You know we're very happy tohave you back doing one video a
week.
You know, maybe we'll push youto do two.
All of you guys listening, youknow, keep an eye on both of our
(47:19):
channels for collaborationcontent coming soon.
You won't want to miss it anduntil next time, take care
everyone.
So it's a bye from me and byefrom you, sir thank you, we'll
see you in the next video.
Hi Unraiders and welcome back to another episode
of the Uncast Show.
Now, it's been a little whilesince we've done an interview on
the channel and today we have avery, very special guest.
For anyone who's been in theUnraid community for more than a
few years, this man needs nointroduction.
He's one of the originalcontent creators and he's helped
thousands of us get ourservices up and running, and
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he's actually just returned toYouTube and it's been celebrated
by everyone.
So please, everyone, give awarm welcome to Rami from
EbraCorp.
Rami, absolutely awesome tohave you here, my friend.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Thank you, Ed, for having me on the show.
Mate, let me say it's been afew years in the making, but
it's a pleasure to finally hookup together.
Everybody's asked for it forthe last few years, so it feels
good hook up together.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Everybody's asked for it for the last few years, so
it feels good, yeah.
Yeah, we've finally done it, um, and it's great to finally meet
you.
We, you know, we spoke a fewdays ago during the week, and
we've been like emailing eachother, discussing ideas of
collaborations and things wemight do.
Now I think a lot of peoplelistening they're obviously
going to think that spaceinvader 1 and ebra corp on the
same screen is a big moment,because we're kind of a bit like
the ogs of the unread creatorworld, aren't we rami?
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So who do you want to be?
Snoop dog or dr dray?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I'll take dray on this occasion, but, um, either
is a good option, right, I don'tthink there's a competition
there, but no, look, I thinkit's true.
Man, we started uh, you know,at least I started back in 2020.
You started a lot earlier thanI did, and people have been
loving our content since then,so it only made sense to finally
meet up together, hopefully getsome more content out together
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as well.
You know, what do you rememberabout the community when you
first started back in 2020, ramioh apart from the videos, the
occasional videos that we hadout it was mainly forums and the
community still felt prettysmall in the Unraid world, like
not really many people knewabout it.
I felt maybe the company at thetime still felt pretty young,
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you know, in that kind of earlystages.
And now, when I look back in2025, it's just amazing how much
of a staple item Unraid'sbecome across the environment.
So, yeah, it's a very differentplay playground than we had
definitely yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
You know what actually got you started with
unraid in the first place.
How did you actually find theos?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
uh, so yeah, I um, I have a sister with a disability,
so my my approach was I neededsomething easy for her to be
able to watch media, and Plexwas that option.
So I went down the deep dive ofyou know how can I host Plex?
How can I make it easy formyself?
Obviously, I had a little bitof sysadmin background, so I
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wasn't too worried about tryingsomething new.
But you know, when Unraid camealong and that was my first
introduction to Docker as well,mind you, I had no experience
with Docker whatsoever a way tokind of click and install things
and I was like you know what?
This is great, so what?
Yeah, anyway, I started lookingon YouTube.
I found you you're one of myfirst kickoff inspirations, mate
so I thought this is awesome.
(03:00):
You know someone's covering itas well, I can follow along and
it's been great.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah, well, you know someone's covering it as well, I
can follow along um, and it'sbeen great yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I had to put you through having to listen to my
voice all that time ago.
I'm sure my microphone was alot worse back then, like you
were.
No, you were a diamond in therough um, as I was finding
content.
I think one of my biggestgripes with content creators at
the time was they tend to waffleon so much.
Um, you know, you could get 20minutes into a video and still
not be at the point of the videoyet.
So I thought, well, I'm goingto go ahead and try and make
some kind of see what peoplethink and took some learnings
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from yourself as well.
And here we are Awesome.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah.
So a while back, a postappeared on the Unraid subreddit
titled I miss EbroCorp andSpace Invader 1, and it
absolutely blew up.
So what was it like for youseeing that massive outpouring
of?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
support from the community.
That was huge, mate.
I mean I was taking a very longbreak from the channel, just
focusing on life and kids andand all the rest that comes with
it, and so I thought I justdidn't have time.
But when I saw the post and sawhow many people agreed and said
you, you know, hey, we'd lovefor them to come back.
We really missed their content,the way they presented things,
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broke down ideas, that was kindof like a kick up the butt to
just get back into gear and sayyou know what?
We have an audience here thatwants and likes our work.
I would love to be able to keepserving them and giving them
stuff that helps.
And you know, part of what wedo and I'm sure you might agree,
ed is we like to educate and welike to take what could be
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technical or complex things andtry to make it easy for people
to follow along, because mypersonal belief is the more
people we can get into, you know, whether it's self-hosting or
open source is a good thing.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Definitely.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah, that's one of my main inspirations.
But yeah, the Reddit post, mate, it was unbelievable.
I mean, you saw it.
You saw how many people werescreaming for us to come back
and pump out some content, soit's been good.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
What caused your kind of break in content creation?
I know that you've had, youknow, two children.
I'm not sure if the communitykind of realizes you've had two
children in the last four years,isn't it, Rami?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, they're four years old now.
Yeah, turned four a couple ofmonths ago.
So that can take a lot of time,especially in those first
couple of years, just trying tosupport the wife and the family.
And then on top of that, yeah,my work priorities started
really piling up as well and Iwas concentrating on a lot of
things at once and for anyonewith a day job you can imagine
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it kind of sucks a little bit ofthe creativity out of you when
you haven't done so much on.
So I guess I just needed alittle bit of time to make the
time, if that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Yeah, I remember in the post you said you didn't
want to churn out content thatwas poor quality just for the
sake of kind of youtubealgorithms.
I think that's a really goodthing and a lot of creators feel
that um, but you know, it isquite easy to burn out as well.
A lot of people don't realizethat a video that um is 20
minutes long that we mightcreate it didn't take us 40
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minutes to make you know ittakes a lot longer, takes a lot
longer than that, and I've justnoticed this.
You have another.
There's another fine productfrom IbraCorp that's come out
just a couple of days ago onPangolin.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Yeah, yeah, that was a heavily requested one.
That one, yeah, lots of room to, can you?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
can you describe what pangolin is and why people
might be interested in checkingout that video?
Rami?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
yeah, definitely.
Um, so pangolin is a reverseproxy slash tunnel.
Um, slash, you know, areplacement for your current way
to access your resourcesremotely.
Really really cool application.
I would suggest a lot of peoplecheck it out, even if it's not
with our video, but the projectis great the ability for people
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to replace something likeCloudflare Tunnels.
You know we have a lot of ouraudience that prefer self-hosted
solutions, so I thought youknow we have to show this one
off, and it was great to workwith them as well.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
So does it allow people to get around
carrier-grade NAT if they've gotthat like?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
a Cloudflare tunnel would they can yep correct.
A lot of the time they usesomething like a VPS to set it
up on rather than directly onUnraid.
So we wanted to demonstrate theUnraid aspect.
Wanted to replace a reverseproxy.
Here's a great option, but Iunraid aspect wanted to replace
a reverse proxy.
Here's a great option, but Ireckon the next one we might do.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
We'll do that vps tunneling option as well.
Yeah, that that'd be.
That'd be a really awesomething, because you know you can
have a vps for, like you know,five bucks a month, can't you?
Yeah, yeah so it'd be nice tohave a self-hosted cloudflare
tunnel that you don't have toworry about.
A lot of people worry aboutstreaming, plex, jellyfin, mb
and things through CloudflareTunnel getting in trouble for
too much data going through.
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So with a VPS, if you've gotunlimited data, that would be a
really great thing, I think.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Five bucks a month, as opposed to paying the pro
price of Cloudflare, for example, to be allowed to use sort of
caching.
Kind of makes sense, doesn't it?
You want to probably host ityourself.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah, five bucks is just a cup of coffee, so that
kind of gives me a little bit ofa good segue to ask you some
kind of quickfire questions.
I used to do this a lot with myinterviews, just to get to know
you.
So, coffee or tea, rami, whatdo you prefer?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Coffee, Coffee first.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Yeah, coffee, good man.
I've got my coffee here, a bitgoing cold on the desk and a
nerd version Butter FS or ZFS.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I have never been able to wrap my head around ZFS
properly, so I'm going to sayButter FS, just based on my
knowledge.
Set Right cool.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Let's throw in a really controversial one, and
you have to give the rightanswer here, so I'll never speak
to you again.
Star wars or star trek starwars yeah, good man.
Well, they're both awesome.
Really, there was no rightanswer I.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I actually liked star trek as well, but I never got
into it as much.
Um, I wasn't part of that crowd, I suppose.
So I just got into star wars,and that was pretty late in my
life.
But mate, what a cinematicmasterpiece that is.
But I never got into it as much.
I wasn't part of that crowd, Isuppose.
So I just got into Star Wars,and that was pretty late in my
life.
But mate, what a cinematicmasterpiece that is.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Yeah, I've been running a container called
what's it called?
Ersatz TV and by the time thisvideo goes out, that Ersatz TV
video will be out on my SpaceInvader 1 channel.
And it's a really coolapplication, rami.
I'm not sure if you've everheard of it before.
It allows you to create yourown tv channel, basically.
(09:30):
So it connects either to yourmedia library or you can connect
it to your media server,jellyfin, mb or plex, and you
basically make your own tv showlike live tv okay, you make
little collections.
So I've got my kind of 1990s andand noughties sci-fi, things
like dark angel kind of startrek, next generation, all my
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kind of favorites and you caneither have it.
So you literally schedule theum the program you can have like
6 pm, it does two hours of startrek, 7 pm it does two hours of
Stargate, what have you.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yeah, so your own TV channels right.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Basically, yeah, and you then just connect that up as
an HD home run channel to Plex,mb or Jellyfin, and so all of
your people who you share thechannel with can watch these
live things.
And what I find so cool is youstart watching something you'd
never normally watch.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
And I found some sci-fi shows.
I thought, wow, I've neveractually heard of this one.
It's actually pretty cool andbecause you can't fast forward,
rewind.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
You can't assign it with what you've got.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah, and you can actually put adverts in as well.
A lot of people download a1980s advert pack and so you can
actually have it.
So like a 1980s advert pack andso you can actually have it.
So it does filling out the kindof gaps.
So like if the TV show is 40minutes and it needs to do an
hour, it can kind of putfive-minute blocks of ads during
that hour to kind of pad it outto the hour, so everything
stays.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Is this DizQ TV?
Is that what you're talkingabout?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
No, it's called Ursatz TV.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Ursatz.
Okay, yeah, I did try disque tv.
Oh, I'm probably mispronouncingthat, like everything else with
my accent, but um, that wascool and it is a little bit
dated now, so I'd be great, it'dbe great to see your video and
check this one out, because Iactually quite liked it.
Kids found it quite useful, too, to have a kid's channel that I
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could just schedule a wholebunch of stuff on and they'll
watch it as it as it's, liveyeah, it's.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
It's really fun, like if you're kind of working and
you, you can chuck it up onanother screen just in the
background.
It's just playing randomepisodes, you don't have to
think about it.
I was speaking to a friend ofmine the other day and he was
saying, wow, that's going to beso good for my mum because she
likes the show Golden Girls, his, his mum's in in her 90s and so
choosing the shows through plexand that kind of thing is more
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difficult for her.
So just to have it that she canjust kind of turn it on, it
just plays random episodes, oryeah, I'm really enjoying that.
It's probably my favoritefavorite container at the moment
.
It's something that I didn'tknow I'd like as much as I do
yeah, get it out there.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I can't wait to see that one.
That'll be great.
Yeah, people will love that.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Anyways, we went off a little bit of a side tangent
there, so I'm going to ask you aquestion that can end
friendships.
When you're editing a configfile tabs or spaces- Spaces.
Yeah, me too.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I've been burnt with tabs many times and I've been
burnt with tabs many times andI've been slapped over the head
for it.
So definitely spaces yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
And last one.
So say you're setting up amedia server for a friend, are
you?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
going to point them to Plax or Jellyfin.
I'm going to say it depends onthe friend.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Yeah Well, it depends .
If you like them, you'll sayJellyfin, If you don't like them
, plax.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yeah, pretty much.
But I think if they have alittle bit of tech savviness, I
would say go for Jellyfin, youknow, because they'll be able to
at least troubleshoot anythingthat might come up or know where
to look.
I feel like still, if I'm beingcompletely honest, plex is
still the most polished mediaserver out there.
I could be wrong, people cancorrect me, but I just still
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think it's still the mostpolished, like it just works
most of the time.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I think you're 100% right Rami.
Yeah, but you know I love theopen source aspect of Jellyfin.
That's why I've been coveringit a lot lately, just so people
can jump on board, because if itcan be supported more and given
enough donations for people todevelop it off their own back,
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it can be just as good as Plex.
The only difference is, yeah,plex is a private model, right,
so they've got a lot of capitalto keep building on the app.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
That's probably all it is of capital to keep
building on the app.
That's probably all it is.
So, out of the features thatyou see in plex, what would you
love to be able to see injellyfin that isn't there?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
that is in plex I don't think there is any
features in plex necessarilythat I uh couldn't get out of
jellyfin.
Um, whether it's all out of thebox, I don't know.
It might be a differentquestion though what about
yourself?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
um, I don't use plex.
I never have to be honest.
I I originally.
I originally used um, plex andmb and tried them at the same
time and I just didn't likeplex's interface.
I really liked mb and um I Irun jellyfin and mb side by side
at the moment beautiful.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yeah, nice, I did like envy as well.
I just gave that a trial, youknow, a couple years ago.
Um, no complaints, though, itran great talking about um, um,
containers and things.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
I've probably got a question that everyone's dying
to know.
Give us a verbal tour of yourserver.
What's your main unraid serverrunning these days and also what
hardware is running, thesoftware that's running what
you're running?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Yeah, so my primary server.
Well, my whole rack is sittingright back behind me there.
It's grown over the last fewyears so we've got a unified
switch in there connecting backto the UDM Pro.
Inside I have a Dell R720 rackserver.
That's the new fresh startUnray zero to hero kind of
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server.
I use that as my play bench andthen underneath that is a
Silverstone case.
I did that whole video aroundbuilding it from scratch, which
is a learning experience for me,because I don't know about you,
ed, I've never done a rackserver with the whole HD
enclosures in the front, sothat's just the case.
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But in terms of the hardwarerunning on it, I've got an
i9-10900 using iGPU.
On there I've got 64 gig of RAM.
I got to meet one of my Discordmembers the other day on voice
chat and the guy has I'm notgoing to drop his name in case
he doesn't want to, but he haslike a terabyte of RAM.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Oh man, wow.
First time I've ever seen thatthat's insane yeah that is
insane.
I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
He had a whole story around how that happened, but I
just couldn't believe it.
I was like a terabyte of ram bythe time.
So he runs game servers onthere.
That's what he was saying.
Um, that's pretty much thehardware.
It doesn't take too much.
I don't run a graphics card.
I've always wanted to, but Ifound for my use case I guess I
didn't really need it.
Um, you, you might be differenton your your end, but yeah, I
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know you've actually coveredgraphics cards quite a bit in
terms of media service, so I didfollow along on all that.
But for myself, I think theIntel iGPU seems to do a great
job on its own, so I've neededto.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah, I think the Intel iGPU does a better job
than you know, something like aQuadro P2000 by NVIDIA for
transcoding.
It's just so much moreefficient, much more power
efficient.
But are you kind of interestedin vms and that kind of thing?
Is that something you kind ofdo or do you tend to?
Just, you're just like a dockerman and, um you, you run
(16:53):
physical machines as opposed tovirtual machines no, so I don't
run any virtual machines on myunraid server.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
that's really mainly my media server.
There's a couple ofmiscellaneous apps, but most of
it these days is doing mediaautomation and Plex and Jellyfin
now as well.
Sorry, but for virtual machinesand things like LXC containers
I use Proxmox and I've got thatinstalled on our cloud server.
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I kind of hate calling it acloud server.
It's just a server with HetznerCloud servers somebody else's
server.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Hetzner are great, aren't they?
They're really good.
I bought of Hetzner one oftheir kind of used servers from
the server auction.
I think I pay about $29 a monthand I've got, I think, six
terabytes hard drive and acouple of 512 SSDs and an old
Intel 6700, I think it is.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
But it's great yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Yeah, my partners Hawksy and Duck the late Duck
introduced me to Hedstner andhere in Australia we get no
really good options like that.
You know you'd be paying $300,$400 Australian for half of what
you get from Headster.
Wow, obviously you get thelatency reduction.
It's going to be here in theoceanic area, but I just can't
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go wrong.
I think I pay 80 euros for thiskitted out server with 128 gig
of RAM and I just run a bunch ofcontainers on there.
Yeah, that's been good.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Yeah, so we'll put a link to Hetzner, I think, in the
description of this video.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Yeah, please do.
Maybe one day they'll supportus.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I did ask them to once, but you know if you're
listening, hetzner, I did askyou when I was doing a video on
installing unraid on a hetznerserver.
I made a script that woulddownload the um unraid and,
using their rescue media, itwould put it onto a usb flash
drive and then reboot.
I said would you like, wouldyou sponsor me?
And they said no very curiouslike that.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Uh, what do we do?
So we've just installed Proxmoxdirectly on the server, so it's
running on the host, which,with a little bit of trickery
and man, it really takesadvantage of something.
Rather than paying for multipleVPSs, you just host your own
static IP.
Great.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
So is that where you're going to put your
pangolin when you're running onVPS?
Do you think?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Yeah, I think I'll just do that.
I'll run a small container.
The networking side I haven'tquite figured out yet because
we've got PFSense on there andkind of understand how we're
running.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
I don't want to get into the kind of weeds too much
in this kind of podcast, but howdo you find the stateless
firewall with Hetzner?
I find it a real painpersonally.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
I don't even use it.
I don't think.
Is that on by default?
Speaker 1 (19:44):
you mean, yeah, it's just a stateless firewall so
it's very difficult for doingkind of various things.
Okay, and so what services areyou running on your server?
So just kind of media things.
Anything else that's not mediathat might be running on Unraid.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Anything that's not media related.
I've got an application that Ilike a lot called Notifier
Really good developer Nitsuaworked on that and that, apart
from notifying you about all theservices you've got plugged
into it, it has a wide range ofthings it plugs into.
It hooks up to something calledthe Trash Guides as well I kind
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of covered that in past and youmight be familiar, ed, with
this but it allows automaticsyncing of those profiles too,
so you can bring those down toall of your automation apps and
make things a little smoother.
It's mostly hands-off.
I really don't touch the servertoo much, apart from making
videos for people, and then I'vegot a couple of reverse proxy
things running like traffic andNginx proxy manager, yeah, so
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anytime I want to get somethingexternal or run that yeah, your
traffic videos were reallyawesome, rami, I must say you
know thank you.
I can't take all the credit.
That was definitely a team,team effort there.
That was a hard one.
We actually had some good inputfrom traffic as well, which
always helps, oh, oh, wow, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
So what a lot of people don't realize is you know
there is like a kind ofcommunity behind EbraCorp.
You know, not just the YouTubechannel, but you've got a
Discord channel.
You know you've got EbraDocs,github, et cetera.
Can you tell us a bit aboutEbraCorp, the EbraCorp ecosystem
?
Speaker 2 (21:24):
That's the word I'm looking for.
Um, I'd love to.
Yeah, so I.
When I started off makingcontent, I realized, all right,
there was a lot of like-mindedpeople.
Um should develop a space forthem to come in and share their
ideas.
And one thing I've kept to my inthe back of my head this whole
time, the past few years, is I'mnot the smartest person in the
room.
In every scenario there arepeople that and you've met them,
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ed these are people that aresuper brainiacs, man.
They know stuff back to front.
The part where they maystruggle is trying to get that
concept out to others tounderstand, right?
So a lot of the developers Imeet, for example, are super
intelligent people and sometimesthey just don't have the time
or the energy to try andtranslate it for people that may
maybe not as super intelligent,right, but I believe their
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product is so good that I wantto get it out to as many people
as I can.
So, anyway, we create thisDiscord server, people start
joining and then I realized thisreally is a communal thing.
So I want, if I'm going tocover a topic, I try to reach
out to the developers first.
Ask them hey, we want to coverthis in a video.
Is there anything you'd like toshare, that you'd want to
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highlight or anything like that,and try to make it
collaborative, and with orwithout them.
If that doesn't work or it doeswork, we take that feedback and
then I ask pretty much thegroup and the community what do
you guys want to see?
I say I would love to see avideo on this.
What do you guys want to see?
I say I would love to see avideo on this that makes my job
(22:49):
easier as a content creator,because I can make exactly what
people want right and at thesame time, I get to learn.
Because I get to learn from allthese people, you know.
They show me how to do it all,or they might help me and
provide input on a video I'malready doing myself and correct
me as I'm going.
So I get to keep learning and Ithink that's better than just
pumping out content, assuming Iknow everything.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
That's really great, rami, how you get the feedback
from the actual developers.
That's really cool that you canget that relationship going.
I think that brings a hugeamount of value to your videos
and I think that's a reallygreat thing.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Can I ask you, ed, before we move on?
I want to know more about youas well, mate, and your channel.
I think a lot of people wouldlove to know more about you.
I don't know if you've coveredit already, but I'd certainly
like to know sure.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
So I started my youtube in 2016.
There wasn't any unraid contentand I've kind of fell into the
unraid content making.
I'd used unraid since 2012, onand off.
I really kind of got intoUnraid, you know, I'd say
seriously.
When Unraid 6 hit and there wasVMs and Docker containers, you
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know I thought, wow, this isjust awesome.
And you know, I started my kindof computer life, I would say,
with computers like Commodore 64, Atari 800, the early kind of
like IBM PCs, and in those daysit was just so fun to me and I
absolutely loved it.
I've worked in IT for oh Godsince about 1998.
(24:15):
And it kind of got more andmore boring, I found as the
years went on.
Kind of IT, just like you know,it's always a fun subject, but
it kind of got a bit kind ofstale.
And then unraid 6 came out andlike docker containers, vms,
like just so easy to do, and itjust put that same spark of fun
back into kind of computing thatI felt I had when I was a child
(24:37):
with my kind of atari 800 andjust tinkering with it and
feeling I can do something withit.
I used to sit in my bedroom likewriting stupid games.
One One was called light bulbLarry on my Atari 800, where I
kind of put little bulbs in asocket on a platform and jumping
over things you know, just tobe able to make stuff on your
own and do things.
I found that you know reallygreat.
(24:58):
Um, I think it was about thesame time it must've been as
windows eight came out.
You know, you're kind of likeseeing things like windows 8 and
then you know you get unraid 6yeah, it's like you know,
absolutely absolutely nocomparison.
Anyway, I'm kind of drifting offhere again, but my daughter
said she wanted to do a youtubechannel and I was going you know
(25:19):
, you know, go for it, just doit.
And she's going oh, I'm tooembarrassed, I'm too shy.
I said I'll tell you what ifyou do a YouTube channel, I'll
do one as well.
So I started doing YouTube.
I think the first video I didwas actually I did it with my
brother as we, I think, put somesort of liquid cooler on a GPU
or something ridiculous and Ithink it's called the frost
(25:42):
frostite or something cooler,and I quite enjoyed just making
the videos.
And my daughter a week latersaid that she has changed her
mind and she was on to kind ofsomething else that she wanted
to do.
I think she wanted to try somekind of sport.
I think it was horse riding thatshe wanted to do then and
YouTube had become a second sortof thought and I thought I
(26:05):
actually really enjoyed it and Iwas really into using unraid.
I've been using it a long timeand I thought there's just no
videos on unraid at all.
There was just absolutelynothing.
So I thought I'm gonna startdoing them.
So and I apologize to everyonewho has to listen to my early
videos with my macbook promicrophone yeah, oh yeah, I
(26:25):
started with a headset, mate.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Well, we'll start somewhere, right?
Yeah, yeah, that's an awesomestory, though I used to get a
lot of complaints.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
I used to get about the sound quality in my videos,
so hopefully it's better now.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Like we said the other day, I think it's
something you only realize onceyou start really making a lot of
content, how important thesound is and yeah yeah, you
start to appreciate.
Okay, I'll probably need tosplurge and buy a good
microphone because people wantthat good sound yeah, there's
nothing worse than watching ayoutube video and the sound's
just hard, hard.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
You know, I'd rather watch a youtube video with crap
video and good sound than goodvideo and crap sound.
You, you know, I think mostpeople are the same.
But you know a lot of peoplemight wonder.
You know where I've been withthe Space Invader 1 channel.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
A lot of people might not know that I started working
officially for Lime Technologyat the beginning of this year
and I'm making content on theUncast channel.
Various things like you knowinterviews like Rami and I are
doing right now, various kind oftutorials and reviews of things
like we reviewed the linkstation and to run my own
(27:35):
business, an MSP, for probably20 years and it got to a kind of
point in my life where I wasthinking I'd quite like a change
and the opportunity came up towork full time for Lime
(27:56):
Technology Best move I ever did.
Such a great, great team we'vegot and I really kind of wanted
to get in into doing that.
So I wanted to reallyconcentrate on my role there and
I thought I want to get theuncast channel up to 10 000
subscribers.
So I didn't want to be puttingout content on my own channel
taking away um kind of views tothe uncast.
(28:19):
I wanted to build that up firstbut we're over 10 000
subscribers now.
I think we're on about 11 and ahalf.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Yeah, I just checked in the other day.
It was really steaming ahead.
It's good.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
So yeah, I think I can start making some Space
Invader 1 things.
I've got a whole load of thingsin the pipeline.
Also, just in my spare timerecently I've been working on
various little plugins andthings Like.
One thing that I've beenworking on is a way to actually
start the unraid array that'sencrypted without having to put
in an encryption key.
(28:48):
So I'm going to kind ofannounce it what it is here now.
Um, as I finish the plugin now.
Um, so I use.
I did a video years ago.
I'm not sure if you useencrypted disks on your server,
rami, or you just not, but I'mlistening now because it sounds
interesting you know I like tohave encrypted disks on my
server.
The main reason being is notthat I've got like super secret
(29:09):
kind of NASA data there that youknow, if anyone found it it's
going to be really bad.
But if one of my drives goeswrong and it's quite a new drive
and I want to RMA it back tothe company, I don't have to
worry about my data being therebecause it's encrypted and you
know it's not going to kind ofjust get recycled and maybe
churned out to someone else andthey could, like you know it's a
good point find the data onthere.
(29:30):
So that's that's really my mainreason.
I want the encryption.
So the pain is always where you.
You know you start up yourunraid server and you've got to
put the encryption key in.
And yeah, you could have likean encryption key one, two,
three, four if you want to bereally dumb, um, but you need a
long, decent encryption key andthat can be a pain to type in.
So years ago I thought how canwe get around that?
(29:51):
So I made a script that justbasically downloads it from a
web server in a in a private ftpplace.
But then that script was in thego script and obviously if
someone stole your server, thatscript's there and they could.
They could decrypt the server.
So the server boot up, do that,download the key, unlock the
drives automatically.
(30:11):
So a lot of people use that formany years and I think most
people who auto unlock theirservers do still do that.
But yeah, you can delete thekey from online if you find out
your server's been stolen butsay you're away for a month,
your server gets stolen, theyplug it into the internet and
they load it up.
All of your data is going to bethere.
Yeah, so you know, for peoplewho might be running kind of
(30:34):
like a small business they mightbe, you know, have more kind of
important data.
They may have financial data onthere that could be a real
issue if a thief steals it andthey just happen to then go
through and find other datathat's more valuable than the
server itself.
So I really wanted to think ofa way of actually mitigating
that.
So basically, how encryptionworks is it uses lux encryption,
(30:56):
which saying this more for thekind of audience I know you know
this already around me but youcan have more than one key.
I think in lux too, it's 32keys we can have, so you can
have more than one key.
I think in Lux too, it's 32keys we can have, so you can
have multiple keys.
So what I figured is we keepthe main key that you'd normally
type in, and so what the plugindoes is it generates its own
dynamic key.
It takes the serial number orthe MAC address of your primary
(31:17):
NIC and it also reaches out toyour router, takes the MAC
address of the router and itcombines them and hashes it into
a separate key.
And so then when the serverstarts up, if it's connected to
the router.
It can always generate the keydynamically and it will create
that key on boot, put it in andunlock the drives.
So then if someone steals yourserver, they're very unlikely to
(31:37):
steal your router and yourinternet and try and set it all
up there.
They're going to steal just theserver.
They'll leave the router behindand then you know, it will auto
start and it won't be able tomake the dynamic key.
It'll be plugged into adifferent router and so the key
will be incorrect and it won'tauto start.
But then you can always get inwith your original key, so it
(31:57):
just gives you an extra key andallows the auto start.
So I've been working on thatprobably since January, on and
off, and surely you're going todo a video?
Adding more and more things, soyeah, so that's the video that's
coming this week after theAirsats one, and I'll release
the plug-in officially.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Mate, look at us.
We're coming back with a punch,aren't we now?
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Yeah, and you know, I think, Rami, how many videos
have you done since like theReddit post?
Speaker 2 (32:25):
It.
Rami, how many videos have youdone since the Reddit post?
It must be kind of like what?
Four, five?
Yeah, look, I went a little bittoo hard that first week
probably.
I was a bit too excited.
Man, you get pumped up, youknow.
So, yeah, I think I've doneabout five and a couple of
shorts.
You know, trying to do a bitmore of the shorts and I just
want the audience to know aswell.
You know I've avoided and Ed'sprobably the same right when I
(32:46):
was saying to you, ed, that Ilike putting good quality
content.
I'm not always about thealgorithm.
There is also a point whereyou're like your channel just
can't grow without doing somesort of stuff.
You know that YouTube likes,even though they say it's what
the audience likes.
So it's important to do acouple of things like shorts,
and I'm just trying to do a bitmore of that.
But the main content is alwaysgoing to be those flagship
(33:09):
videos we do.
They're the most fun as well.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Looking ahead, you've come back with a clear vision?
Obviously, absolutely.
What would you say is the grandplan for IbraCorp over the next
year?
Now you're back.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Yeah, great question.
Um, I've been thinking aboutthis yeah, a lot over the past
few weeks and my clearest visionis to keep growing the channel,
to keep getting more involvedwith a lot of these projects
that I'll probably put off inthe past few years because I
didn't have the time so I caninvest a bit more, more time in
that and ultimately, uh, try andreally sit youtube at the front
(33:47):
.
I'm trying my best to do thatnow rather than, you know, kind
of like a side thing, I'm tryingto make it more of the main
thing for us here, because itjust gives me that creative joy
that I just don't get out of.
Like you said earlier, it getsboring, and you couldn't have
said it better, man.
You know I do it day in, dayout.
There's only so much you can dobefore.
(34:08):
You just need somethingdifferent, and doing this gives
me something different almostevery week.
You know we can pick and choosewhat we want to cover or how we
want to cover it, and you'rewriting plugins for yourself,
and you know what kind of jobgives you that opportunity.
As often, usually you kind ofhave to just toe the line right.
So, yeah, I'm really lookingforward to the next 12 months of
(34:28):
just getting more and morecontent, and I'm hoping the
channel grows naturally becauseof it, as it has been anyway.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Um, you know everyone .
You know who doesn't knowrami's channel.
Get over to ebrocorp, hit thesubscribe button.
Like both rami and I, we wantto get to a hundred thousand
subscribers.
We need the silver plaque soyou know all of my all, everyone
watching who is a space invader.
One watcher go over to rami'schannel and just hit that
(34:55):
subscribe button please thankyou so much.
Yeah, please do you knowswitching gears a little bit
rami's um.
A lot of people don't realizeand you just mentioned it
briefly then that you know yourcareer is actually in it and you
work in cyber security.
Am I correct?
Speaker 2 (35:09):
correct, yeah, over the past two years, I think I've
been doing that rolespecifically.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Yeah, and um, how do you find does that tie in in any
way to your kind of youtubecontent?
Do you find that's kind ofhelpful in in the kind of type
of things you're doing?
Is there like a kind ofcrossover with that in any way
that you find useful?
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Yeah, there is, in the sense that I have to deal
with a lot of various differentvendors on a day-to-day basis,
or I'm looking at new productsfor my day job, so to speak,
which exposes me to a lot ofvarious different tools that are
out there.
Now, generally, we're nottalking about the same tools you
probably buy to protect yourhouse or your home network.
(35:49):
These are usually, as you know,enterprise things but what it
does give me is a bit of avisual of hey, you know, I
wonder if there's an open sourceoption of this particular tool.
Right, you know, and if thereis man, people should know about
it because I think it's areally cool idea.
I, if there is man peopleshould know about it because I
think it's a really cool idea.
I just don't know if someone athome wants to pay $20,000 to
have it, so what options do theyhave?
(36:11):
So, yeah, I do crossover allthe time.
The YouTube stuff is actuallypretty funny because I started
doing a lot more cyber awarenesstraining as well.
So my role is a cybersecurityadvisor.
That's typically what my roleis.
Well, so my role is acybersecurity advisor.
That's typically what my roleis.
So when I'm not advising, I'malso trying to bolster up
(36:31):
resilience and I'm trying a newthing for Cybersecurity
Awareness Month in October withdoing like a retro theme,
gamifying it and trying to getmore buy-in from the staff.
So trying to think outside thebox and use a bit of that
creativity.
There has been fun and you knowI bring that back to the channel
because I can pretty much shareall the, all the funny stories
(36:51):
that we we kind of get acrossthe line.
Um, cyber is one of thosethings.
You've been a lot around, a lotlonger, a lot longer than I
have ed, but it never used to becalled cyber security, just was
it security.
You know, um, pretty much youwore many hats as a sysadmin as
well.
You kind of covered that aspectanyway.
So, yeah, bringing it back tothe channel people have been
(37:14):
really keen on okay, we've gotall these awesome apps how do I
actually protect myself?
And so having that experiencewith whether it's firewalls,
next-gen firewalls, thinkinglike Cloudflare, and at that
level as well, it'll be usefulPeople will like it.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
What advice could you give to the Unraid users out
there for how they can actuallyimprove the security of not only
their Unraid server but theservices they have running on it
that they expose to theinternet?
Do you have any tips that youwould say are must do things?
What would you recommend to thecommunity for that?
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Number one, and I hope you agree with me on this,
but please do not port forwardto your Unraid server directly.
That is the first and foremostthing I'm going to start with.
You know, we've heard somehorror stories.
We've probably all done it atone point.
Don't do that.
The next best thing you can dois, if you can just avoid
opening ports at all in myopinion is your best choice and
(38:16):
if you can do it in aself-hosted way, something like
WireGuard you're laughing, youknow.
I think one of the biggestlearnings I had from when I
started even the channel, butjust me learning in Unraid as
well was do I actually needeverything reverse proxied?
Like I was just reverseproxying everything and a few
years down the line I thought tomyself I probably don't
actually need this stuffpublicly available.
(38:38):
I can.
Just A few years down the lineI thought to myself I probably
don't actually need this stuffpublicly available.
I can just VPN in and access itanywhere anyway.
Why take that risk?
So that's probably my two bigtips, yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Yeah, definitely, Like I had a friend of mine I'm
not going to say your name,Marco he literally just
forwarded port 80 before Unraidactually even had like a
password to log in to theinternet.
And then one day he rung me upand goes ed, all of my data's
gone and I went really and, um,he just forwarded port 80
(39:11):
because he wanted to be able towhen he's at work, access his
unraid server and like yeah sonever forward ports, because
then you're, you know, relianton, even if it's an application
you know you're reliant on the.
How good is the security of thatapplication?
Speaker 2 (39:29):
and generally it's all bots.
You know it's bots scanning 247 and they're going to beat you
nine times out of ten.
So just don't take a chance ifyou can avoid it.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Yeah, so that's a really good point.
You know, rami like it's bots,because I think a lot of people
they kind of think, well, no onewould bother trying to hack me.
I'm just a little home user.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
But bots don't give a .
I was going to almost swearthen.
Yeah, bots don't give A rat'searlobe about that.
Yeah, thank you.
Thank you, rami.
Thank you for pulling me out ofa hole there.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Yeah, so, um, yeah, no um, definitely just protect
yourself, man.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Don't even do it if you can avoid it but you know, I
think, um, I was the same aswell, I'd reverse proxy things.
You know, for the sake of it Ithink I don't need to be reverse
proxying that.
But I think, um, now we've gottail scale in unraid.
I'm not sure if that's somethingyou know, you use a lot rami,
but love it yep love it it'sgreat because you can give
access to not only yourself, butyou can just send a share link
(40:31):
to a friend like oh you know, doyou want to be able to access,
um, this container?
You know you put tail scaleinto it.
Then give them access just tothat one that's great use case.
I haven't even, yeah, gone thatfar well, one use case I really
like um.
I I'm a big fan of vault warden.
I'm not sure if that'ssomething you use yourself, rami
, it's a, you know, for everyonelistening, it's a self-hosted
(40:53):
password manager, um.
But with vault warden you haveto use a domain.
So I don't like using a domain,so I've got to have like a
passwordmydomaincom.
You have to have that becausethe clients use it, that you
have in your web browser to beable to fill in the passwords.
They need that and it needs tohave an ssl certificate.
(41:13):
But I never used to like havingit exposed to the internet.
You know, even though they'vegot very good security in the
software, it was still someonecould go to that webpage and it
would say do you want to log in?
I didn't like that.
So I thought, well, tailscalecan fix this.
So what I did is I just made an, a record for passwordmydomain.
I installed Swag, which is myfavorite reverse proxy
(41:38):
personally, which is just anNginx reverse proxy, and I put
Tailscale into that so it hadits own Tailscale IP.
And then what I did is I madean, a record for
passwordmydomaincom to thatTailscale IP and so on my
Tailnet.
It would resolve, it would havean SSL certificate.
(41:58):
That's great.
On my on my tail net, it wouldresolve it, would.
It would have an SSLcertificate and so long as I'm
connected to tail scale, I canaccess my, my password manager
and my wife as well.
I put tail scale on her phoneand stuff, so all of her
passwords, and so it's still but, it, but it's it's linked into
tail scale.
So I love tail scale.
I of tailscale, I think it's.
(42:23):
Yeah, man, um, ever since, uh,I mean, we started with the
docker container and then whenit came out as a plug-in it was,
I remember you did thetailscale.
Yeah, you were the.
I think you were the firstperson that actually um showed
me tailscale, like I rememberthe docker container yeah,
thanks to hawksy on that one.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
But yeah, we got the video out and then now obviously
we have the plug-in.
I push everyone to the plug-in.
I say, go that.
We're hoping to do the tailscale video soon, as well as an
update.
But yeah, I use it all the time.
So all my stuff.
You know, when I'm trying toSSH into my servers, first thing
I do is I fire up my tail scale, which has access to that
separate network, and I can worknormally, you know, without
(42:54):
reverse-proxy, anything, whichis great.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
Well, we've got a little bit of an announcement to
make as well, haven't we, ramito the community is Rami and I,
we're going to be doing somecollaboration videos together,
so Space Invader 1 and EbraCorpcoming together and we're going
to be making some really greatcontent for you, to the
community.
Is there anything in particularyou'd like us to cover together
?
We've got some ideas, ideas.
(43:17):
We're not going to spill whatthey are right now, but, um, if
you guys have got any ideas ofwhat you'd like rami and I to
cover together, um, we'd be veryhappy and open to any
suggestions yeah, make sure youdrop it in the comments, guys,
because that's that, we'll readthe comments and yeah and it
gives us exactly the right thingto make for you.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
So, um, feel free to jump in and subscribe that'll be
great as well to both ourchannels so you can get alerted
when we drop them yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
So I'm very excited about working with rami, working
with such a, you know, greatyoutuber who's been around for a
long time, like, like we'resaying earlier, you know,
working with my og counterpart.
I think that's going to besuper fun and, um, with rami's
kind of skills and, you know, hebrings a different angle to
things, teaches things a bitdifferent to me.
So the combination of ustogether I think we can have
(44:04):
some great collaborations andhave a whole load of fun with
you guys out there in thecommunity as well.
But anyway, um, it's been anabsolutely fantastic chat, rami,
um, this has been well overduein in my opinion, and I know all
the community, hopefully, isgoing to love it.
But before I'm going to let yougo, I'm going to just say again
(44:25):
I'm sure everyone already knows, but where can they find you?
You know, plug everything, theYouTube channel, the Discord,
the GitHub, all of it when canpeople find Rami Ibrahim?
Speaker 2 (44:34):
No worries, guys, if you want to find our channel,
it's youtubecom.
Forward slashC, forward slashat IbraCorp, and you can also
get to our website, ibracorpioor IbraCorpcom, and we'd love to
have you.
You'll find our links to ourDiscord all across all of the
socials, and we're also onTwitter as well IbraCorp.
Underscore IO, reddit, all therest, you'll find the links
(44:56):
there on our website.
But underscore io, reddit, allthe rest, you'll find the links
there on our website.
But, yeah, we'd love to haveyou.
Thank you very much, ed, formeeting me and, as a fan, as
much as I am a content creator,I'm also a fan of yours and your
work.
So thank you for your work, um,and opening up wise, I'm I'm a
fan of yours as well.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
So, yeah, we're both having a bit of a strange moment
, like being fans of each other.
So, um, but, rami, thank you somuch for your time today.
You know, and thank you foreverything you do for the unread
community.
It's people like you that makethe unread community great, and
also people like you in yourebra corp ecosystem.
I've got a question I've got toask you.
(45:32):
Ebra corp, I love the name.
It's so cool.
It reminds me of blade runner.
Yeah, that's, that's what itgives me the Blade Runner vibes.
Yeah, I'm not sure where you gotinspiration from, but I want to
know where did the name comefrom?
It's such a cool name.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
All right, perfect, perfect story.
I love Mr Robot, I love theMatrix.
I love, you know, all thatdystopian technological future.
I love all that dystopiantechnological future, I love
that stuff.
So when I had E-Corp in MrRobot, I thought, you know, I
would love the channel to bealmost people don't really know
(46:07):
what we are a little bit generic, a little bit of mystery, a
little bit, you know, dystopian.
So I thought, yeah, EbraCorp,which comes from my surname,
ibrahim.
So I just took Ibra.
All right, of course, added corp, which comes from my surname,
ibrahim, so I just took ibraright of course, added corp and
here we are, and there you go,wow, yeah, wow.
Speaker 1 (46:24):
Never thought of that .
So, yeah, it's the beginning ofyour surname.
How cool is that awesome what?
What an awesome name.
I remember you did a video along time ago.
That was kind of like ananimated video, with a man kind
of talking um, oh yeah, that waslike an advert that was my poor
, that was that was original.
Ai was it wow?
(46:45):
Yeah, you were well ahead ofthe game back then, like you
know, um, that was amazing thankyou.
Speaker 2 (46:50):
I can't say it was very good, but yeah, it was fun.
Speaker 1 (46:53):
It was fun yeah, yeah , definitely, anyway.
Um, it's an honor to have youback, rami.
You know, keep pumping out thecontent please, but don't burn
yourself out.
You don't need to do fivevideos a week.
You know we're very happy tohave you back doing one video a
week.
You know, maybe we'll push youto do two.
All of you guys listening, youknow, keep an eye on both of our
(47:19):
channels for collaborationcontent coming soon.
You won't want to miss it anduntil next time, take care
everyone.
So it's a bye from me and byefrom you, sir thank you, we'll
see you in the next video.
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