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  • Cloud tech makes sense on-prem too

    A line drawing of a robotic arm placing a memory module into a mini PC

    In the previous post, we talked about the importance to have a flexible homelab with Proxmox, and set it up. Long story short, I only have a single physical server but I like to experiment with new setups regularly. Proxmox is a baremetal hypervisor: a piece of software that lets me spin up Virtual Machines on top of my server, to act as mini servers.

  • My server can burn, my services will run

    A parody of the This Is Fine meme. A fire is sitting in a chair surrounded by puppies.

    When I was a kid, our house got burgled three times. Our most valuable belongings were taken, our safe place put upside down, and our minds were scarred. This had a deep impact on my relationship with belongings: I want as little of them as possible, and I want them to be easy to replace.