Category: homelab

  • sudo Incident Reports – where do they go?

    Even though it’s my server, I still have a pang of guilt when this happens. I always imagine Richard Stallman (or someone with a similar 2000’s database administrator beard) looking at me disappointedly and shaking his head slowly. It does raise the question though – since it’s my server, shouldn’t I be getting a text…

  • Proxmox – Storage Basics

    Once you’ve got Proxmox installed, you can point your web browser at the IP for the physical server, and use the port 8006. Log in as root using the password you entered during the install. If you just accepted all the defaults during the install it will look something like this: Let’s discuss what you’re…

  • Upgrade Cycle

    Now that I’ve seen I can easily stand up VM’s on this baby server, it’s apparent the first limitation I’ll run into is RAM. It has two laptop sized memory slots that can take up to 8GB apiece. So it could easily be doubled, but at a cost of around $70. While I’m looking on…

  • Proxmox Hypervisor

    I mentioned a while ago that the price of the Raspberry Pi4 was getting such that it’s smarter to purchase one of the little business workstations instead. Depsite having little need for such a thing, I went ahead and bought an HP Elitedesk 800 G1 “mini” PC. It has 8GB RAM (which is the max…