homelab 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
homelab 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
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.
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’
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
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,
