This weekend was D-Day for my Proxmox HA/Ceph cluster. Spoiler alert! It actually runs! And yes, this took way longer than expected, and I had a serious run-in with Mr. Murphy. More on that later. Photos All three nodes, side by side. And yes, I bought another NOX 010 case. It differs from the NOX…
Category: Computers
Yay, my first network switch with an attitude
I’ve owned plenty of network gear over the years. Great routers, crappy routers, access points, cheap switches, expensive ones, silent ones and extremely loud ones! You plug them in, they boot, lights blink, life goes on. My new MiktroTik CS309 is a different animal altogether. I accidentally pulled the power from it. I was trying…
What if. I went completely insane for a day
What if I went completely insane for a day and got hold of the most absurd hardware solution I could ever have wished for? What would that look like? And yes. I will go completely overboard. And yes, that is a solid understatement. Updates I’ve updated the article. I found the pricing of the 1U…
Proxmox software update
And a sooner-than-expected software update, or rather; a VM update. Today I migrated the three remaining VMs from my office node to my main Proxmox host at home. All three VMs belong together: a PostgreSQL database, a Python development machine, and an Nginx reverse proxy. As I had never migrated VMs before, it sounded like…
And another Proxmox update!
It is now almost a year ago that I started my Proxmox journey. Almost exactly a year ago Microsoft decided to push the infamous Windows 11 update and subsequently wrecking my homeserver in the process. And right now, I have a few more interesting things to talk about. Hardware “Node 3” is almost finished. I…
Throwback server rack flitspaal.nu ( 2002 )
In case you didn’t know:I’m the godfather of flitspaal.nu — and later flitspaal.nl. It was a Dutch-only website listing all fixed speed cameras in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. The site ran from the early 2000s until 2012, long before smartphones, apps or live navigation alerts were common. This is a picture of the first…
The Art of De-Optimization: WhatsApp’s Bold New Direction
Because Who Needs Efficiency Anyway? The WhatsApp Windows application is going to be completely revamped soon. The native app is going to be replaced by a version based upon WebView2. source: https://tweakers.net/nieuws/241382/whatsapp-vernieuwt-app-voor-windows-gebruikt-tot-tien-keer-meer-geheugen.html That sounds rather uninteresting at first, but there’s a large but — actually, several. The WebView2 application is insanely bad in resource usage,…
Proxmox update: 10Gbe network. CHECK
Nerd alert! The three Intel X710 10Gbe network cards are in! Thank you Ebay! ( in earnest this time! 🙂 Port 1 will be used for the Ceph sync for the VM’s. Port 2 will be used for data towards my network. More soon! Brain out!
Operation: Onlyfans #2
If you’re looking for kinky content, you’re in all the wrong places — again! This story is about dust bunnies and compressed air — again! Part #1 can be found here! This is just a short update. After watching one of the videos from this channel — not this specific one! — I figured it…
BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, NO POST
Yeah, I know. That’s one hell of a cryptic title for this POST (pun intended 😛 ). Proxmox node 3 Yes! This post is about the third Proxmox node I’ve been assembling. Last Sunday, I finally had some spare time to install everything into the newly bought case. The process itself was straightforward: add extra…