What Started This I wanted an offsite backup machine. That was the whole idea. Put a small box at a family member's house, hang a 12TB external drive off it, push backups to it over WireGuard, and finally stop pretending that "backed up to the NAS in…
The Problem Here is a fun little paradox I let sit in my homelab for way too long. My monitoring hub, the piece of software whose entire job is to tell me when something in the house has fallen over, was running on a Mac Mini in the house. Same…
The Problem Every few weeks, my entire house would lose the internet. Not the ISP. Not the WiFi. Everything, all at once, including things that have nothing to do with the internet. DNS stopped resolving, so none of my internal services could find each other. DHCP stopped handing out addresses,…
The Patch Was Easy. The Password Reset Almost Locked Me Out. Five months ago I wrote My Blog Told Me It Was Vulnerable. It Was Right. It was about CVE-2026-26980, a 9.4 CVSS SQL injection in Ghost's Content API, and about the mildly humiliating discovery…
The Itch A few of my homelab boxes live in the garage. In Florida. The garage stays manageable most of the year, the rack vents to ambient, and the Everwell mini split bolted to the wall keeps things comfortable whenever I remember to turn it on. The "remember"…
Where We Left Off Part 1 ended with a shiny new 3-node HA Kubernetes cluster: one Proxmox VM and two BeeLink mini PCs, glued together with kubeadm, kube-vip, and Flannel. The control plane was HA, the etcd quorum was solid, and the VIP survived any single-node failure.…
The Itch My wife runs a small property management business and I host the Rails apps that run it. Main app, background job workers, queue database, the usual. All of it sitting on a single PostgreSQL container on one Docker host in my homelab. One machine, one process, one very…
I've been running emir.fyi and a handful of other services through a single Cloudflare Tunnel for months. Worked fine. Never thought about it. Then I started setting up a new domain example.com as a dry-run for another domain that's about to carry lead-…