learn from my mistakes…
Foreword I got tired of the runaround. Check on backups? SSH into the backup server. Spin up a new client instance? Click through Railway’s dashboard, then Cloudflare’s DNS panel, then set up 15 environment variables. Add a new service to the network? Log into Nginx Proxy Manager, configure the proxy host, then log into Pi-hole…
Foreword I’ve been running a NAS and Proxmox nodes at home for years. Two hypervisors, a bunch of VMs, plenty of idle compute just sitting there. Meanwhile I was paying monthly for shared hosting to run a couple WordPress sites. At some point it hit me: why am I paying for hosting when I have…
So I run a homelab. Nothing crazy. A couple Proxmox hypervisors, a Synology NAS, pfSense firewall, a managed Brocade switch, UniFi APs, three Pi-holes, an Emby server… okay, maybe it’s a little crazy. Point is, there’s a lot of stuff generating logs, and I was not reading any of them. Every morning I’d tell myself…