Tag: infra

All the articles with the tag "infra".

• Three ways to upload ISOs to Proxmox

  Updated: 5 Apr, 2026

  Web UI, wget, or direct file copy — pick your ISO upload method based on what you’re doing.

• Self-Hoster's Disaster Recovery: When Everything Goes Wrong at Once

  23 Jan, 2026

  Build a real disaster recovery plan for your home lab: RTO/RPO explained simply, 3-2-1 backup rule, Proxmox backups, Restic to Backblaze B2, and a runbook template you'll actually use.

• Appwrite: Your Own Firebase, Minus the Google Surveillance Subscription

  15 Jan, 2026

  Appwrite self-hosted BaaS setup: auth, databases, storage, and serverless functions on your own hardware. Compare with Supabase and PocketBase.

• Chaos Engineering: Break Things on Purpose Before They Break Themselves

  18 Dec, 2025

  Learn chaos engineering with Pumba for Docker container chaos and Toxiproxy for network failure simulation. Discover failures in staging before your users find them in production.

• ArgoCD vs Flux: GitOps — When Your Git Repo Is the Source of Truth

  24 Nov, 2025

  ArgoCD vs Flux for Kubernetes GitOps: compare UI-focused ArgoCD with automation-first Flux CD. Sync workflows, install examples, and when to use each.

• Cockpit vs Webmin: Managing Your Linux Server Without the Terminal (Sometimes)

  17 Nov, 2025

  Cockpit vs Webmin compared: modern vs veteran Linux web admin panels. Install, features, and when to use each for server management without the terminal.

• Time Sync on VMs: Why NTP Keeps Drifting

  4 Nov, 2025

  Your VM's clock is off by minutes. NTP is running but your system still drifts. Here's why.

• BGP in Your Home Lab: Dynamic Routing for People Who've Run Out of Static Routes

  25 Oct, 2025

  Run BGP in your home lab with FRRouting. Covers iBGP vs eBGP, FRR installation, basic BGP config, peering with OPNsense, route filtering, and when BGP is actually worth the complexity.

• BookStack vs Wiki.js: Picking Your Self-Hosted Documentation Platform

  21 Sep, 2025

  BookStack vs Wiki.js: different philosophies, same goal. Compare features, Docker setup, editors, SSO, and which one fits your team or homelab.

• Proxmox vs XCP-ng: Hypervisors for People Who Like Their Data Center at Home

  29 Jul, 2025

  Proxmox vs XCP-ng compared for homelabbers: KVM vs Xen, ZFS, web UI, VM management, and which hypervisor to pick for your spare rack server.

• the lost+found Directory in Linux

  19 Jul, 2024

  What is lost+found and why does it exist? fsck puts recovered file fragments there after a crash — and no, you can't delete it.

• Docker Volume Mounts: Essential Flags

  8 Jul, 2024

  The -v and --mount flags for Docker volumes explained — bind mounts vs named volumes, read-only, propagation, and tmpfs options.