This week we are talking about migrating from UNRAID to Freenas. Let’s start with the why. For about a year I’ve been using UNRAID as my storage/VM/docker platform and it’s been awesome. However like it says in the title, UNRAID is not raid, which has some good benefits and some pretty significant downsides. Because it doesn’t use RAID it means I can mix an match … Continue reading Home labbin’ IT 5 – Moving to Freenas
Quick video for those starting their home labs covering a very common question in the /r/homelab subreddit, “What Operating System should you use in your lab? Windows, Linux, Mac?” I very briefly discuss hypervisors and their benefits. Continue reading Home Labbin’ It #2
I’ve had my current company issued Macbook Pro for about two years now. It’s been a bit of a workhorse, relatively powerful with a quad core i5 processor and 16G of RAM and a measly 256G SSD. For the most part this machine has served me well. I had to learn to compromise for it to suit my needs, which admittedly is not typical for … Continue reading Linux Not Quite Ready To Replace Windows For General Business PC Usage
This should be a pretty quick post about a tiny little computer that I used for the first time, no i’m not talking about about the Raspberry Pi. The particular little box I’m referring to is the Intel NUC or Next Unit of Computing. It’s basically a barebones system, just add a hard drive and memory. The short version of this story, is my company … Continue reading Intel NUC is a life saver
For the past 10+ years of my career in tech i’ve taught myself pretty much everything I needed to learn by doing labs on my own. Usually this has been a bit of a kludge running things on VMware and occasionally on older machines I had laying around the house. I’ve always had a dream to build a real lab. Well.. That time has finally … Continue reading Lab Time
I’ve been meaning to write this post for quite a while now but I haven’t really had the time between work and family life, and in all honesty when I did have the time I’ve just been way too lazy to site here and put my thoughts into words. I just so happens that I am sitting here in Terminal C at LGA waiting for … Continue reading Why Everyone Should Run Their Own web Server
Like the title of this post says. I finally decided to jump on the single board computing bandwagon and got myself a Raspberry Pi. When I originally bought it, I had the idea of running Ansible or maybe CFengine to control my VPS server, You know simple tasks like running upgrades etc, maybe aggregate my logs into a format that’s easily readable and searchable. But … Continue reading So I have a Raspberry Pi, now what?
It’s not too often that I write a post designed for the consumer, actually to my recollection I have never written anything with mom and dad in mind. Even though we are geared more towards businesses, we still do a relatively large amount of consumer services. With that said, the usual problems that we deal with on a regular basis are usually a completely failed … Continue reading Data Back-up and Media Storage/Serving
A few months ago I talked about using Open Source software in your small business. If I remember correctly I mentioned the fact that we use a decent amount of open source technology in our company. This week I decided as a proof of concept I would only use Ubuntu( one of the most popular Linux distributions), for everything except billing because Quickbooks is a … Continue reading Macbuntu 10.10
