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Cleanup Week

This week I decided it would be the perfect time to do some cleanup in my room. It was a pretty busy week but I wanted to ensure that all the cabling and all of my materials ar...

Creation of All Services

This week will be the start for all the services that I want to run for my enterprise and personal alike. There are also a few weeks left before the semester ends so I do not ha...

OPNsense Success!

I decided to retry configuring OPNsense this week and I succeeded. The answers to my old problems were relatively simple and with that I created 3 new VLANS and swapped around ...

OPNsense Setup and Struggles

This week was a large change for how I want to run my network, I have decided to go from my Edgerouter-4 router to a virtualized instance of OPNsense on my servers. There are a...

Fixing Proliant Fan Issue and 'Overheating' Problems

After a few weeks with my servers my current solution of running a cronjob every 10 minutes was not working the best. All my servers but 1 proliant are having the fan issue and...

Setup of Local AI with Internet Access

This week I decided that I wanted to setup a local AI on my desktop which has a NVIDIA 3090ti, 32GB DDR4 and an Intel i9-13900k running Fedora Workstation. My plan is to run thi...

Wireguard Peers and UPS Tests

This week I added an additional wireguard peer as well as running a few UPS tests which most failed and some have succeeded. For the time being I decided to add my friend’s hom...

Wireguard and UPS Setup

This week I have setup a Wireguard VPN for my laptop to my home network as well as setup the Network Utilities Tools Server to monitor the UPS for my servers. I decided to use ...

Pterodactyl Setup

This weekend I setup 2 VMs on my cluster. One VM is used for the pterodactyl panel and the other is used for the pterodactyl game node. Pterodactyl is an open-source game mana...

Full Homelab Setup

This weekend I finished the basic setup of my new homelab! Using the 4 C6100 nodes I made a 3-way hyper-redundant Ceph cluster. This means of my 24TB Raw storage I now have 8TB...

Initial HomeLab Setup

Now that all the materials I bought have arrived I can begin the full construction of my homelab. I will also begin with weekly homelab updates to my blog every Sunday, explain...

Initial HomeLab Purchases

With the money I earned from my Internship I will be buying a list of items for my homelab. I currently have a C6100 server and 2 Proliant DL360p Gen8 servers that each have 25...

How my IT Operations Internship Went

July 25th, was the graduation day of my IT Internship where I had to present a capstone presentation on how the internship went here are some highlights of what I learned:   ...

The Start of my 3rd Semester BTC and Senior HS Year

Today was the start of my 3rd Semester BTC program. I am currently taking the Technical Support Specialist Associate of Applied Science program. This semester along with Pre-Cal...

This site is Live!

Now that the site is live there are alot of exciting things to be expecting like writups on the different things I do as well as well as anything that interests me!