Visualizing Storage Usage on Linux with NCDU This will be another quick read but I wanted to share a neat tool I found recently. The other day, I was SSH'd into my Plex/game server and noticed that my disk usage was at a less than comfortable percentage of free space, which raised the question:
Setting Primary and Secondary Nameservers in Linux While we've covered setting up a domain controller and also how create A records to give our servers easy names to use, rather than relying on referencing them by IP address, I've been limited to enjoying this luxury on only my domain connected Windows machines that
How to Setup and Configure a vCenter Appliance Not too long ago, I showed you how to set up a domain controller within ESXi. Other than that, unfortunately, I haven't blogged much about ESXi, or really virtualization in general. That doesn't mean I haven't been learning and making progress in the meantime,
Dell XPS 13: First Impressions A while back I had done a brief write up on the iPad Pro and using the Magic Keyboard paired with it as an on-the-go solution for managing your homelab remotely. After using it for a pretty extended period of time, the honeymoon period wore off and I saw the
The New Blog! Welcome to the new blog! Our homelab blog has come a long way from the days of it being hosted on blogger.com. The site you're visiting right now is hosted on my own hardware, right in my living room using Ghost, a free and open source blogging
Future Projects Setting up my homelab and getting more familiar with various technologies that have come along with the learning process has been like opening Pandora's box. Starting new projects always seems to open my eyes to other fun looking projects that I'd like to implement in my
How to install Heimdall I've recently discovered a pretty neat tool called Heimdall. If you're like me, you probably have quite a bit of services running. At this point, it can start to become a bit cumbersome managing the locations of all of these services. I've tried using
Making the Switch In my pursuit of diving deeper into the world of homelabbing, I've been dealing more and more with Linux and have been absolutely loving it. It just feels right. It's extremely lightweight, open source, and just seems more all around efficient, especially when leveraging the commandline
The iPad Pro: A surprisingly viable option for remotely managing your homelab While I've owned my iPad Pro for a while now, I wanted to write up a quick update on how I've integrated it into my workflow since purchasing the Magic Keyboard for it. Yes, the keyboard is arguably overpriced for what it is but I'
Extending a Logical Volume While SSH'ing into my media server the other day, I noticed that my root directory was quickly starting to become pretty full. Lucky for me, I've set my operating system up to use LVM. For those who aren't familiar with Logical Volume Management, it&
Changing LAN Subnet in Unifi I've been hanging out a bit more at my a friend's house in my free time and have been dealing with a pretty irritating issue for a while now. When tunneling back to my home network while on her network, I've been able to
Creating IoT VLANs in Unifi Devices Introduction With the abundance of IoT devices becoming more popular than ever, one might question whether they really want these devices to have free reign on their local area network. That's the mentality I have on the whole situation, anyway, so I began looking into what I could
