I run this entire stack on a k3s cluster at home. syslog-ng, Promtail, Loki, and Grafana are all deployed as Kubernetes workloads in the infra namespace. If you are running this on bare Docker o...

My last electricity bill was $800 AUD for the quarter. Before the homelab got serious it was around $300. That is a $500 jump in three months and honestly, i did not see it coming. I knew running ...

For a while I had Google Analytics on this blog. The ID is still in my _config.yml. But here is the thing. I self-host almost everything. My photos, my notes, my automation, my media. And then I tu...

I use Syncthing to sync my Obsidian vault. Server on the utility VM, Windows PC, and my Pixel. The server acts as the middle point so my phone and PC do not need to be online at the same time to st...

New container, can’t resolve DNS. Classic. Except this time I’d already set the DNS in daemon.json, restarted Docker, checked iptables — everything looked right. Ping worked. DNS didn’t. Spent way ...

Background So with latest windows Updates its so hard to stay now, almost like they want you out. So i decided to use Linux as main gig again. Now i use Linux on my Laptops and Servers, it’s even a...

The first thing I do after I install a fresh new VM is SSH into that machine and use it locally. Now i will not rant about SSH and its uses and why you need it or why it’s better than web console. ...

Its 2025 most of us have a spare piece of Desktop or Laptop lying around, which seems like is not worth much. But using Proxmox that piece of old tech can make your life easier without a lot of tro...

Before Installation Backup your data Download Balena Etcher & ISO of ARCH Linux Burn ISO to a USB Restart Boot Press DEL and load to BIOS mode Change Boot Priorities to USB ...

Every server I set up eventually needs Docker. There are a few ways to install it. Snap is one option but I avoid it because it adds a lot of overhead and snap packages have caused me issues before...