During the past few months I’ve had some time to re-design some of my system and network architecture. I’ve been upgrading operating systems, adding/updating applications, and adding/removing servers in an effort to enhance security and manageability while also providing additional capabilities. Some of the changes include: Added a dedicated reverse proxy server (HA Proxy) to […]
I’ve been using Plex to record live TV for a few years now and have accumulated over 27,000 episodes of TV shows and 1,300 movies. Over the past few years I’ve been adding storage to accommodate the incremental growth and now have approximately 58 TB of disk space devoted to media file storage as well […]
In the past year or two I’ve begun using Docker more and more to run applications and services on my home network. If you’re not familiar with Docker, click here to read more. I have a virtual machine setup for the sole purpose of running a multitude of applications in Docker containers. Some of the […]
About a year ago I switched my desktop computer from Windows to Ubuntu. It was a tough decision as I had been using Windows at home and at work for around 30 years and I was very comfortable with it. You can read about the switch here. After a year with Linux, I can say […]
A few weeks ago I finally made the switch to Linux on my desktop computer. This was the only remaining machine running Windows so I’m now completely Windows free. I guess this was inevitable as I’ve been running Linux on all of my servers for a few years now and it just seems natural to […]
I’ve had some basic home automation stuff running on auto-pilot for a few years now and decided to spend some time researching what’s new. My old setup utilized OpenHAB to do some simple things like turning lights on/off when motion was detected and forwarding messages from my ZWave devices to MQTT. When OpenHAB stopped working […]
When I started to build out my home network a couple of years ago I decided to standardize on Linux rather than Windows for all of my servers. This decision was primarily based on licensing costs. With the infrastructure I had envisioned, having to purchase multiple Windows Server licenses was simply not a cost I […]
Over the past couple of years I’ve put together a small home network with a number of services/applications that I find particularly useful. The following paragraphs provide a high-level overview of the most important components. Servers and Networking I have a pair of SuperMicro servers hosting virtual machines that run all of my services. Each […]