This week I was away on vacation when the power went out at home. When it came back, most of the homelab booted up fine. Two servers didn’t. The worst part wasn’t the downtime. It was that I had no idea. Nothing alerted me, and I only found out days later when I tried to use a service that wasn’t there. A homelab without monitoring is a homelab you’re hoping works....
I had a different post queued up for this week. It was going to be a practical post about Immich: how I finally moved my photo library away from Google Photos, how the timeline view works, how face recognition feels, how “on this day” memories hit differently when they are not attached to an advertising profile. That was the plan. Then Google signed a classified AI deal with the Pentagon....
Introduction: Shielding Critical Infrastructure Running 24/7 operations from a home base – whether it’s autonomous trading algorithms or personal management applications – demands more than consumer-grade network hygiene. We’ll cover segmenting your network to contain threats, hardening the perimeter (your router), and securing the endpoints (your servers – be they Raspberry Pis, standard PCs running Ubuntu, or even renterprise gear like Dell or IBM servers you might have… acquired). The goal is maximizing uptime and integrity while minimizing exposure (and money expenditure)....