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
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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
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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 »
Shew. Big update. I continued working on adding additional features and improving the Marvel Ultimate Character Generator. 2,865 lines of code. Almost 3k. If this was a book with 25 lines per page that would be almost 115 pages or 4 chapters at 29 pages each. It might sound like a lot, but when you
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Progress. After overcoming the previous challenges I faced my toughest yet. How could I modify FASERIP? More specifically, how would I modify an attribute to go up or down the ranking system. To quote Abraham Erskine, “Good becomes great. Bad becomes worse.” The solution was to look at the index of a list and then
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Big Update. I have updated Marvel_Ultimate_Character_Generator to include the following: Physical Forms Changes to FASERIP Changes to Origins Added Weaknesses Added Resources Added Popularity New Powers Many of these changes were brought on by the addenda from the Author of the Ultimate Powers book so I have incorporated those changes per: https://classicmarvelforever.com/cms/ultimate-addenda.html Current Code Count:
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