Veeam, Smart home and everything tech
For this post I wanted to take a quick break from my usual Veeam related content to revisit a topic I haven't touched on in quite a while - Home Labs. Inspired by a great home lab upgrade write-up by fellow kiwi Ben Thomas, I decided to share how my own home lab journey has... Continue Reading →
Some Background Pi-Hole acts as a DNS sinkhole and is a great solution for blocking any unwanted content such as ads within your network. Some might argue that this can be achieved using browser plugins however this is application specific and only applies to network traffic within the browser and isn't supported across all devices.... Continue Reading →
Now that the hardware part of the build is complete you would think at this point the next logical step is to start deploying some workloads. However having worked in the disaster recovery industry for many years, my subconscious defaults straight to backups. I think it is engrained into me by this point. You might... Continue Reading →
It's been a few weeks since I finished deploying the NUC and with Christmas right around the corner, setting up the NAS had to be pushed out a bit. Now Christmas is over, we're entered that period where things quieten down as everyone recovers from eating and drinking too much! A perfect time to get... Continue Reading →
NUCs are great little things. All the features of a modern day server (albeit less room for expansion) within a 5 x 5" footprint. Because it's so small, I don't have to find a dedicated place in the house (likely the garage!) to house this unit and what's more, it only uses around 50-70W of... Continue Reading →
Over the past 10+ years, I've been running a custom built PC at home which I must say has served me well. Although it still runs, it's old hardware and getting ready for retirement. For a while now I've been wanting to built my own home lab partly to consolidate and virtualise my hardware but... Continue Reading →
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