Category: Homelab

  • Certificate Consolidation

    Consolidate multiple certificates for subdomains into a single wildcard certificate for decreased complexity and increased security. Navigate through NameCheap’s GUI to play nicely with CertBot.

  • Optimizing Jellyfin

    Optimizing Jellyfin

    Configuring a Nvidia Quadro P620 GPU for hardware transcoding after passing through hardware in Proxmox

  • Installing Home Assistant OS In Proxmox 8

    I had trouble running Home Assistant Operating System (HAOS) on my new-ish proxmox server, because it’s expecting to have UEFI, and secure boot turned off. This isn’t the default when you create a VM, and isn’t entirely configurable within the Proxmox GUI. You would think this would be well documented, but from what I have…

  • Running Home Assistant OS in Proxmox 8

    I had trouble running Home Assistant Operating System (HAOS) on my new-ish proxmox server, because it’s expecting to have UEFI, and secure boot turned off. This isn’t the default when you create a VM, and isn’t entirely configurable within the Proxmox GUI. You would think this would be well documented, but from what I have…

  • The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent

    The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent

    The problem is always in the last place that you look…

  • The joys of homelabbing

    The joys of homelabbing

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0%3Fsi%3DRhg9BF3TpapHHRxw I have an upcoming project to add some insulation into the attic of our addition. The previous owners added on this portion of the house, and did a lot of things poorly. But very few people have hard numbers to backup their claims. Mostly it’s just, “I spent $1,800 upgrading my attic insulation, and…

  • Migrating to Proxmox, part1

    I’ll make a longer post in the future about the state of my homelab. I used to have my original 3u old (2nd gen i3) board running most services, with a few optiplex 7040/7050s running additional services. Minecraft server(s), zoneminder, this website, etc. Originally everything was Debian on bare metal, running each service containerized with…