I have been thinking a lot about how the West is experiencing unprecedented drought. Reports show that the state of California is going on a 1,200 year megadrought. Many of the reservoirs that provide the water for a state of nearly 40 million people are below half of their capacity. There are some intriguing options […]
Idea – Unorthodox Drought water Options Read More »
TL;DR: For this article, I wanted to write about something that many people are not familiar with, namely the WHY, WHAT, and HOW of migrating services from an on premise datacenter to a public cloud. If you have ever wondered why you should move, what it would cost to do so, or even how to
IT – Demystifying the cloud – Part 1 (AWS: Why, What, and how) Read More »
Initial Thoughts: During an AWS seminar, a person mentioned Wasabi and how they use it for their S3 storage. I took a look and they sound pretty good for a variety of reasons. They are one fifth the cost of Amazon and do not have any ingress or egress charges. Their pricing is $5.99 per
Crazy Idea – Using Cloud Storage as Local Storage [Initial Testing Included] Read More »
TL;DR In continuing our free multi-cloud build out, we will setup free backups using Google Drive, install our WordPress website, migrate an existing WordPress website, and setup SSH keys to make logging in easier. Building further upon the last article, we analyzed and setup two servers on two different cloud providers. We setup a domain,
TL;DR We will analyze the different cloud providers and determine what we can get in the free tiers. Then, we will build VMs in different clouds for increased high availability. We will setup a domain, DNS via nameservers, as well as configure replication between our locations. In my quest to figure out how to get
Originally, I had intended to write an article about a new Home Lab project I am working on using Docker for application virtualization, ESXi for operating system virtualization, and hardware reconfigurations for TrueNAS by swapping components from multiple servers. However, it turned out to be incredibly more involved than a single article would be able
IT – ZFS and Deduplication Read More »
There is an old adage says that a picture is worth a thousand words. I take that motto to heart. Years ago I had the idea that I wanted to display the physical locations of objects on a topographical map. This way we could show where assets are and where people work. After all, the
IT – Tracking Physical Assets and improving software metering Read More »
It’s been a busy time lately. Lots of personal matters that have had my attention, but I have started to continue to progress on building backup power for our home. Between Icestorm outages in February, ERCOT changing people’s home air conditioner settings in the summer due to lack of available power, and with hurricane season
Project Update – Whole Home Generator Read More »
Greetings Everyone. I am a follower of all things Marvel as many of you are. I think I must have started when I was barely out of diapers with the Sunday newspaper and seeing Spider-Man in it. The artwork was energetic, colorful, and I wanted more. One day as a child I went into a convenience
Phew. I spent the past couple of weeks in an AWS Developer Associate training session and let me just say that it was easy and hard at the same time. The concepts and what you are doing are fairly straightforward, but the amount of material is substantially greater compared to the AWS Architect or AWS
Finished AWS Developer Associate Training (It is a beast) Read More »
