weekly-updates Weekly Update 2: Lets bring on the solar! This week has been fantastic. It’s been so nice to relax and hang out with the family, and do lots of exciting solar and electrical work. As you can tell from my blog, I’m a geek developer who’s got some unusual
weekly-updates 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,
colocated 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.
nature 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
homelab 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’
protips 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
code 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
sysadmin 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
downtime Yikes! We had some downtime today - here's what happened. Who knew that changing a hostname was so difficult? I was doing some renaming of the aliases in the hosts file, along with the hostname itself. The hosts file was looking pretty generic, like so: 127.0.0.1 localhost lo-monty 209.[IP] pve01
backups 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’
review 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
management PHP IPAM: An excellent tool for managing your resources For the longest time, I’ve been using Spreadsheets to manage my inventory, the servers, and network configurations. I recently switched to using PHPIPAM, and it’s been a godsend. Disclaimer: This blog post is a continuous draft, and will be updated
code Setting up the perfect development environment I’ve always struggled with finding the right set of tools and environment to feel entirely productive with my workflow, after about 40 iterations I’m finally satisfied
dns What is Split-Brain DNS? When building a lab or any services, you’re going to need DNS in most cases, however, we don’t necessarily want to expose the DNS records to the world, this is where resources like Split-Brain DNS servers come into play. Split-Brain
diagrams Network Diagram (July 2019) I’ve made some changes to how my networking structure is both at home and at the colocation, so my new diagram is seen below now includes the Disaster Recovery site (DR), which is only containing Lightsail VM for backup email instance, EC2
homelab Server and VM Naming Conventions I’m always looking for ways to improve my naming scheme, and make it easier to remember the hosts and their function. For the longest time, I had decided on just short aliases for the names, but, as time grew on and the
docker What Docker containers am I running? In my lab, I’m utilizing Docker a lot, enough to have two KVM instances dedicated to Docker. VM: docker01-monty RAM: 4 GB Storage: 500 GB IPv4 Routing: NAT – 80/443/32900 forwared to VM Containers running: Plex, Grafana, Traefik, Jira, Portainer,
Welcome to The Geek Bin Welcome to The Geek Bin! The Geek Bin was created after 4 years of telling myself to keep a log of the things I do because some day I’
