Weekly Update 1: Switching Residential ISPs
Welcome to the first week in my Weekly Update series! This is a new series, where every week I'll provide updates of what's going on in my life, the tech world, and things I've found interesting! This week, I'm forced to change my ISP. My current ISP is pretty expensive for the package I'm
Why I colocate my hardware
I've had a lot of people ask me why I colocate my servers, and this post will explain the reason behind that! Bandwidth Where I live currently, we have stable but slow bandwidth, and there isn't very good upload speed. I like to stream my music off Plex to myself and family - doing that
Out in the woods
It's been a stressful week, and it's always nice sitting in the woods, enjoying nature and working hard. As time has gone by, I've came to appreciate the woods, nature and find it relaxing. There's no city lights, there's clean air, tons of trees and makes for the perfect place to sit back
NoMachine: My review
I've been experimenting with NoMachine since yesterday to see how it holds it. So far it's been a successful test on my local machine, and I can easily connect to remote machines. Pros Latency? What latency! Generally, you don't notice much if any latency when using NoMachine, just like you'd expect from Remote Desktop
Bypassing Corporate Firewalls – Today was different.
Firewalls are designed with the best intentions in mind, but, they come with their faults. As a systems administrator, I have to routinely deal with users evading the firewalls with ssh tunnels. Some are unknowingly doing this, by using an application with embedded malware against company policies that tries to evade detection. Today was
The Never Ending Bug
Have you ever been faced with a bug that feels like it'll never end? As one door closed you find four more opened up in their place, and the complexity multiplies? I believe it's safe to say we've all been there, and possibly years later the after-effects of the bug still remain. To fix
Happy Sysadmin Day!
To all my fellow Sysadmins out there, happy sysadmin day! It's been quite a year so far. The technology and landscape is evolving at a rapid pace, the support ticket numbers keep rising, and the root question never changes -- only evolves upon the previous. Remember, keep your important documents in the Recycle Bin
Yikes! We had some downtime today – here’s what happened.
Downtime strikes, and it's never good. 74 minutes of downtime today as a result of changing a hostname! Here's what happened and how I resolved it.
Backing up servers with Restic and Object Storage
I've been wanting to update my backup solution, right now things are just synced over to a rented server on OVH (Kimsufi) and Google Drive as I don't have too much data to backup right now that I can't live without, but these backups aren't encrypted and I'd like them to be. Along
VoIP.ms: A year later – review
A year ago my wife and I cut the cord, we gave up having live TV in exchange for Plex, Netflix, and faster internet. The one thing we, for good or bad, missed was the ability to have a home phone. The home phone we had was used by our family in other