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A collection of 8 posts

Monitoring my servers with Prometheus - Part 2

After sharing my previous post, I had some questions about what actual exporters I’m using, where and why! In this post I’ll tackle the exporters themselves, why I selected them and how they’re being used. If you haven’t read the previous article yet, I encourage you

Plesk: I'm impressed.

Update: I’ve updated this blog post as time’s went on, please see the bottom of the post for my review over one year. As you may or may not know, I’ve been running this blog’s server using Plesk Onyx (now, Obsidian). It’s stable, it’s

IPAM: Network and rack oversight made easy.

As you may be able to tell I’m a big fan of IPAM. My initial impression was this software is fantastic and free, it’s fully lived up to my expectations. I’ve got a fair amount of networking going on in my servers, linking them together then back

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

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,

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 instance for this blog, and S3 for

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 count increased, it was harder and harder

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, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Prometheus, InfluxDB HA Containers running: ha-thegeekbin-01