A Fancy Kegerator
Just wanted to show off the cool kegerator I built. I wish I had documented the process while doing it, but I made it a long time ago and honestly didn't think it would turn out as cool as it did. It was built using an old solid…
Dell Micro Proxmox Host
I wanted to use a Dell Micro form factor computer as a host. To use this device, I needed to externally power the 10GB Mellanox card due to the built-in SATA on the mobo not delivering the full 12v needed to power the card. First, to connect the card I&…
Using Certificates in the Homelab
Although a minor inconvenience, having browsers warn me about my internal sites gets old, especially once you start self hosted more than 20 or so services. We want to use a DNS provider to provide a certificate for our internal services, while keeping the services themselves safely behind our firewall.…
Server Rack Move
Server Rack Move My server rack was previously in the middle of the basement. Due to noise concerns, as well as making everything look "cleaner" I decided to move the rack to the closet under my step. Fortunately, it fits just perfect in there and there is a…
Repurposing Old Datto Server
I was able to aquire an old Siris 3 server from my old job. The motherboard it uses is an ASRock Rack D1541D4U-2T8R. Up until recently I've been using it for TrueNAS, but have been using another RAID card for this. Originally I was planning to just add…
Proxmox Homelab Setup
Overview I will be creating this guide, detailing how I setup my homelab. My setup uses slightly older hardware, ranging from 6th Gen to 9th Gen Intel processors. This hardware is old enough that it is relatively inexpensive, but you can find desktops from this age with decent specs such…
Implementing Cold Off-Site Backups - Virtual Machines
Up until recently I have been backing up my most important data to Backblaze. I wanted to implement something that was more of a last resort, cold storage backups to backup both my servers and my file share. I wanted this to be easy to implement, and easy to restore…
External drive caddy for hot-swapping drives
I wanted an easy way to add and remove drives for cold storage backups, so I created this external drive caddy using this Hard Drive Rack. It is no long available on Amazon and has gone up in price, but you can create your own using similar methods or devices.…