How to Install Bichon on Your Synology NAS

How to Install Bichon on Your Synology NAS

Bichon is a fast, self-hosted email archiver written in Rust. It syncs unlimited IMAP accounts via password or OAuth2, stores emails locally as deduplicated compressed EML files, and offers powerful full-text search and tagging powered by Tantivy. A clean React/TypeScript web UI provides threaded views, attachment downloads, and analytics. It includes OpenAPI with token auth, … Read more about How to Install Bichon on Your Synology NAS

Synology & UGREEN: Dockhand Docker Version 1.0.12

Synology & UGREEN Dockhand Docker Version 1.0.12

On January 22, 2026, Dockhand switched from version 1.0.11 to the new 1.0.12 version. Dockhand fixes the following issues and adds new options: New – Add SKIP_DF_COLLECTION env var to disable slow disk usage collection on NAS devices. If Dockhand’s dashboard loads slowly or times out on old NAS devices from the Synology or QNAP … Read more about Synology & UGREEN: Dockhand Docker Version 1.0.12

How to Install Termix on Your Synology NAS

How to Install Termix on Your Synology NAS

Termix is an open-source, forever-free, self-hosted, all-in-one server management platform. It provides a web-based solution for managing your servers and infrastructure through a single, intuitive interface. Termix offers SSH terminal access, SSH tunneling capabilities, and remote file editing, with many more tools. In this step by step guide I will show you how to install … Read more about How to Install Termix on Your Synology NAS

Synology: Difference Between a Hot Spare, Cold Spare and Hot Swap

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Hot Spare: On models that support the feature, a hot spare is an HDD disk that occupies a spare drive slot. It is initialized and registered in Storage Manager as a Hot Spare. If another drive goes into a degraded state and fails, the system will bring the hot spare online to replace the faulty … Read more about Synology: Difference Between a Hot Spare, Cold Spare and Hot Swap