It’s been several months since I first started planning the homelab upgrade but I’ve finally got round to making the first steps. The initial step was to replace my Ubuntu based hypervisor with Proxmox. As the rest of my home network runs on the same host I couldn’t afford to leave it offline for long. … Read more
Traditionally when we assign DNS servers to hosts we assign more than one. For example, we may assign 8.8.8.8 as a primary an 8.8.4.4 as a secondary so in the unlikely event that one is ever down, we have a second one to fall back on. When we set up a single Pi-hole server with … Read more
Tar is a common file archive format on Linux and other UNIX or UNIX-like systems. Like the zip file format, the tar format allows you to combine multiple files in to a single archive. Tar provides many options for compression and file formats making it suitable for many use cases. However, it has gained a … Read more
Ubiquiti’s UniFi product lineup has seen enormous growth in popularity due to its range of high quality access points. While you will usually find professional grade access points in businesses instead of homes, they provide a benefit in any building. This is especially true for large homes or older buildings with thick walls where a … Read more
In a multi-site network you will most likely have VPNs connecting your sites, allowing remote connectivity to your main site. However, as these links are not necessarily 100% reliable, a dropped link could potentially result in the loss of monitoring data for a large number of hosts as the agent does not store any data … Read more
Earlier this month, Zabbix server 5.0 LTS was released. Version 5.0 brings an updated UI, additional cloud integrations and support for the latest Zabbix agent (the old agent is still supported so you don’t need to upgrade the agent on all your hosts immediately). If you are using Zabbix Proxy to monitor some of your … Read more
Last week Nextcloud released version 17.0.2. While the X.0.2 release doesn’t have as many flashy new features as the first couple of releases in a major version it typically marks the point at which the Nextcloud team consider the release stable for production. For that reason it is sensible to hold off on feature updates … Read more