Mar 7 · 3 min read · Yesterday I moved my existing Proxmox installation from a bare-metal machine to VMware Workstation as a virtual machine. The SSD used for proxmox installation (when it was on bare metal) was choosen a
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Feb 18 · 3 min read · Situation I decided to redesign the network setup of my homelab host and all its VMs. My router only supports two 2.4 GHz networks, and the machine I use to access Proxmox is limited to the 2.4 GHz band. I wanted a cleaner separation between my home ...
Join discussionFeb 17 · 9 min read · I've been thoroughly enjoying using my private cloud, inside and outside my home. You may check out how I set it up in this article but the gist of it is: I have a single box running Proxmox with an OPNsense VPN as my router, the Tailscale plugin in ...
Join discussionFeb 9 · 18 min read · System Architecture Overview: Three-tier distributed system using separate VMs for application, monitoring, and logging - mimicking production infrastructure. Why This Architecture: Separation of Concerns: Each VM has a dedicated role (app/monitori...
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Feb 3 · 5 min read · …and why it became the one place where everything finally feels mine A home lab represents independence.Not the grand, dramatic kind — more like "this is my controlled environment, powered by determination and hardware." Mine wasn't assembled from u...
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Jan 24 · 14 min read · Why? For many years now, dare I say 'since I was a little kid', I've been wanting to make my own server, with my own things, my own services, and with all the freedom that entails. Growing up in a South America I wasn't really able to afford or ask f...
Join discussionJan 8 · 7 min read · The Scenario: The "Adequate" Server Picture this: You are a DevOps engineer who has just commissioned a beast of a server. We’re talking about a modern Intel Xeon or Core processor, fast DDR5 ECC RAM, enterprise-grade NVMe storage, and a high-end GPU...
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Jan 3 · 5 min read · Home automation is a lot of fun, but once it becomes a serious hobby, you start running into some challenging problems. Device fragmentation, for one. Ring app for the alarm. Hue app for lights. Aqara app for the lock. SwitchBot app for curtains. My ...
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