#homelab
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My "LAN speed test" was actually an internet speed test
iperf3 said 30 Mbit/s and I blamed the cable. The traffic had never touched the LAN.
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My new monitoring paged me twice on day one. Good.
A flaky HTTP/2 ping and a backup job that ran fine by hand but not under systemd. Both were real bugs, and both got caught.
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Getting a homelab ready to run for three months without me
No sleep, a watchdog, key-only SSH, a wiped HDD turned into storage and backups, a second way in, and an outside alarm for when the box goes dark.
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Auditing a gaming laptop that thinks it's a server
A read-only audit of my homelab box. No firewall, password SSH, no backups, and 86 unsafe shutdowns on the SSD.