Blogs

Intro Every now and again I would wake up to my internet being down while my local network being fine. This usually happened when my ISP renewed my assigned IP overnight. The only solution was to reboot my pfSense VM to force the IP lease renewal. Searching the web I discovered it was not uncommon …

Intro I recently acquired a second domain for one of my projects and wanted to set this up behind the HAProxy instance in my firewall. The problem was that I was already serving my primary domain with it, so I was looking to serve my secondary one as well. It was not as straightforward as I thought …

Intro In the quest to get more performance out of my inter-vm communication, I stumbled upon SR-IOV and virtual functions. I then purchased a 10gbe X540-T2 from a Chinese seller on eBay making sure to get one with a fan, as reports of this specific card say it runs quite hot. After setting …

Intro After deploying the MeshCentral agents to my VMs, I noticed that some of them produced an error screen complaining about Xwayland. This was as simple as modifying a config file and restarting a service. Modifying custom.conf Depending on your system, you will have to navigate to /etc/gdm or …

Intro Enabling SSO for all self-hosted services that support it has been one of the best decisions in my homelab. It has created a seamless “ecosystem” experience for my friends and family (mainly myself 🥲). The problem is that every time I logged in to my services, it prompted me with a …

Intro In the search for an open-source Google Analytics alternative, two options stood out Matomo and Plausible. I wanted the tool to be privacy-friendly and that it did not require cookies, avoiding those pesky consent prompts. I did not find a straightforward guide to self-host Plausible with a …