Tag: homelab
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summer server upgrade wrap-up
It’s finally upgrade time! >(click here to skip to the new stuff)< I originally built this homelab cluster in December of 2022 for a few reasons: for fun, for learning, and to help me pivot my career away from manufacturing and into IT. I saved up a bunch of money, quit my factory job, and…
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proxmox: get rid of gray question marks
Sometimes you might find that one of your nodes and all its containers, VMs, and storages have gray question marks beside them. This happens because the cluster has lost quorum. When this happens, sometimes you can even still see the real-time stats in the summary page the node and machines still ticking along. Here’s the…
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state of the cluster: 1/23
The homelab has come a long way in the past couple of months. It’s still a heap of e-waste, but now it’s a BIG heap of e-waste! It’s been so fun to learn all of this stuff. It’s been so fun, in fact, that I want it to be my job. How it started: It…
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speed up your nextcloud server
By default, Nextcloud has object caching disabled. It also triggers the background tasks to be run on every page load by default, using AJAX instead of using a cron job on a timer. This was causing a significant delay for my friends accessing my server. Following a couple other guides on the internet, I found…
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proxmox wireguard + qbittorrent + samba lxc container – quick and easy
A google search for how to create this type of container will bring up a bunch of malarkey. It doesn’t have to be that complicated. You can set this up in a few minutes super easily. The result is an extremely lightweight and effective torrent box that you can control remotely. It works great on…
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e-waste resurrection
Building a homelab on the cheap means using what you have laying around–even if what you have laying around is a dead Dell Inspiron 3521 from a decade ago. This laptop has already lived several lives. It got the wife through college. Before that, it traveled with the mother-in-law for business. It was pretty bad…