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 to home for easy access. The ability
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
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
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
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 as I learn more about PHPIPAM and explore it more in-depth. PHPIPAM lets me
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 file storage (this blog
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 to remember which server