Homelab

Certbot on a timer, a deploy hook, and a Discord webhook whose only job was to tell me when the other two broke. Caddy does that work itself, so I moved the front door and deleted the rest.

Nine self-hosted services, nine login forms, nine passwords in my manager under slightly different names. I put an identity provider in front of all of them on a thin client, and published it to every interface on the box without noticing.

Three hundred dollars a year for Ghost(Pro) to host forty posts, with a members list four rows long and one of them me. I was paying for a CMS to serve what had always been a static site. Moving it to Hugo on Azure Static Web Apps changed not one post URL.

Two firewall changes in one maintenance window. By morning one box pings the gateway, cannot reach the Plex VM, and looks perfectly healthy in UniFi. Routing is fine. It is working from a cache written before I moved the network underneath it.

A service’s cert I don’t use much had expired. Turns out certbot had been failing twice a day for months and nothing said a word. Port 80 is blocked on my home line, so HTTP-01 was never an option. Wrote up the fix, and hand rolled some alerting.

My Synology’s RAID controller died, so I replaced it with a 24-bay NetApp DS4246 JBOD running under Proxmox 9. HBA choice, cabling, ZFS pool layout, noise, and what I would do differently.

Tired of cluttered feeds and spam-filled inboxes? Try RSS: a simple way to grab headlines without the hassle. This post shows how to integrate RSS into Discord, even if it lacks built-in options, there’s a way to make it work for your server. Let’s dive in!

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Explore the Homepage container to provide at-a-glance reporting of your hosted services and act as your personal hub.