Marius Bogdan Lixandru

Marius Bogdan Lixandru is a highly experienced content creator from Romania with a background in biology, chemistry and computer programming. He loves writing technical guides that are accessible for non-technical people. Born in 1984, he has always expressed interest in technology. Beyond technology and biology, he has a passion for agriculture, the science and beauty of which have encouraged him to start his own vegetable garden and plant dozens of fruit-bearing trees with fragrant and succulent, sweet and sour fruits. When he’s not losing nights uncovering the deepest hidden secrets of the latest tech devices, he’s likely enjoying a refreshing slice of juicy, honey-sweet watermelon, sluggishly lying on the grass in his orchard, sitting in the shade under the trees he himself has planted. Torpid summer days accompanied by cicada sounds and greeted by his smiling wife and happy, tail-wagging presence of his two mioritic shepherd dogs are some of the simpler pleasures in life that help him recharge his batteries to take on the latest tech challenges. Support My Work and Feel free to contact me.

Synology: Install Calibre With Portainer

11 May 20254 April 2025 by Marius Bogdan Lixandru

My previous guide for Calibre involved the use of Task Scheduler. Today I’m offering a recommended and excellent alternative for installing the latest Calibre version via Portainer. Calibre is a cross-platform open-source suite of e-book software by Kovid Goyal. Calibre supports organizing existing e-books into virtual libraries, displaying, editing, creating and converting e-books, as well as … Read more about Synology: Install Calibre With Portainer

How to Install ntfy on Your Synology NAS

9 May 20254 April 2025 by Marius Bogdan Lixandru

Ntfy is a simple HTTP-based pub-sub notification service like Gotify. With ntfy, you can send notifications to your phone or desktop via scripts from any computer, without having to sign up or pay any fees. If you’d like to run your own instance of the service, you can easily do so since ntfy is open … Read more about How to Install ntfy on Your Synology NAS

mariushosting Facebook Group At Over 77K Members

4 April 2025 by Marius Bogdan Lixandru

It’s April 4, 2025 today and our Synology Facebook Group has reached 77K+ members! In less than one month it’ll be Easter and our community of NAS enthusiasts will have grown even more. 77 thousand people have already joined our Facebook group and are part of our dedicated Synology community. I would like to take … Read more about mariushosting Facebook Group At Over 77K Members

Synology Install Guacamole With Portainer

21 April 20253 April 2025 by Marius Bogdan Lixandru

My previous guide for Guacamole involved the use of Task Scheduler. Today I’m offering a recommended and excellent alternative for installing the latest Guacamole version via Portainer. Apache Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway. It supports standard protocols like VNC, RDP, and SSH. We call it clientless because no plugins or client software are required. Thanks to … Read more about Synology Install Guacamole With Portainer

How to Install Papra on Your Synology NAS

6 June 20253 April 2025 by Marius Bogdan Lixandru

Papra is a minimalistic document management and archiving platform. It is designed to be simple to use and accessible to everyone. Papra is a platform for long-term document storage and management, like a digital archive for your documents. In this step by step guide I will show you how to install Papra on your Synology NAS using Docker … Read more about How to Install Papra on Your Synology NAS

Synology: Install IPFS With Portainer

20 April 20253 April 2025 by Marius Bogdan Lixandru

My previous guide for IPFS involved the use of Task Scheduler and the IPFS linuxserver image that is now deprecated. Today I’m offering a recommended and excellent alternative for installing the latest IPFS version via Portainer. The Interplanetary File System “IPFS” is a distributed file storage protocol that allows computers all over the globe to store … Read more about Synology: Install IPFS With Portainer