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Power Outage

Power Outage

Had a 2 day long power outage, and wanted to document everything that went wrong. No UPS, No Redundancy, No Backups Firstly, I don't have a UPS for my server rack, and things could have been more disastrous for my NAS which currently has no redundancy nor backups.

I need one more Server!

I need one more Server!

Hear me out. I thought I had built the ultimate version of my home lab, just to realize I need one more server. Firstly, what was supposed to be my main powerhouse server ended up becoming my daily parsec rig. When I'm at home, I'll parsec

CDN-ing my Ghost blog

CDN-ing my Ghost blog

From pure pessimism after reading a reddit post around unwanted traffic due to image assets, the engineer in me wanted to make sure that everything I was building was following the best practices so that even when things blow up, it should minimally affect my servers. My self-hosted services run

I want to be a game dev

... once I retire from my full time software job. It's now widely known that many game devs are paid peanuts, especially if you consider that gaming is technically considered a software industry (even though it gets commonly bucketed into the entertainment industry). I'm not ready to

Home Lab!

Home Lab!

From top to bottom: * Ryzen 9900X + RTX 5000 ADA in a 3U Sliger CX3171 case * Raspberry Pi 5 Cluster on a Racknex SBC rack mount case * Ubiquiti UDM Pro * Hooked up to a Comcast Docsis 4.0 modem with 2-gig symmetric * And a Netgear LM1200 LTE modem as WAN2 failover