JJJozzieTechinjjozzietech.hashnode.dev·Jul 23 · 9 min readTwo TrueNAS servers, one rack — the CORE-and-SCALE split I never designedTwo TrueNAS servers. Same rack. One's on CORE, one's on SCALE. If someone asked me why, the honest answer isn't a design decision. It's a series of arrivals — one workload trigger at a time, each land00
JJJozzieTechinjjozzietech.hashnode.dev·Jul 16 · 12 min readOPNsense on bare metal — 18 months as the only perimeterFor most of the homelab's life, there wasn't a firewall. The ISP router did what ISP routers do — NAT out, block unsolicited inbound, don't ask hard questions. That's not zero security. It's just not 00
JJJozzieTechinjjozzietech.hashnode.dev·Jul 9 · 9 min readHow I got a suspended TrueNAS pool back online without replacing a single diskThe rack had just come back online after an outage. Most things looked fine — VMs booted, the network reconverged, monitoring caught up on the missed intervals. Then I ran zpool status on one of the T10
JJJozzieTechinjjozzietech.hashnode.dev·Jul 2 · 16 min readI run my homelab like a miniature data centre — here's the network design that made it possibleThe homelab started flat. One /24, everything on it. My workstation, the NAS, the Proxmox host, and — over time — a growing list of workloads sharing the same broadcast domain because that was the pat00
