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Homelab revisited
Way back in early 2020 I started documenting my misadventures in homelabbing, also known as quick and easy ways to annoy your spouse. Over the course …
Instrumenting autoscaling EC2 instances in Prometheus
Prometheus is time series database use for metrics and alerting. Coupled with Grafana it’s my go-to solution for instrumenting metrics for …
Dealing with silent failures
Living on hopes and prayers
How many of you manually check a mission-critical script or task every day to ensure it’s actually run? And, how …
AWS Automation Wizardry
In one of my previous posts I demonstrated the use of AWS Secrets Manager for securely keeping and maintaining the state of a Laravel application .env …
Lessons learned from a DDoS attack
One of our brands recently suffered a DDoS attack - thankfully not a sustained one, but enough to impact website availability and rethink our …
Cloudflare - is it worth it?
So this website is still in its infancy. Less than a week old, in fact.
During my setup process (which I’ll detail in a forthcoming …
Using AWS Secrets Manager for .env files
Managing environment files for highly-available cloud apps can be tricky. The easiest option, of course, is to embed these environment files into your …
Making my homelab smarter - Part 4
Up until now, this series has been focusing on pfSense, but there’s more to a homelab than a router. I know, controversial.
Making my homelab smarter - Part 3
Let’s recap. Back in Part 1, I had a proper grumble about ADSL and routers. In Part 2 we enjoyed a good chat about multi-WAN (load balancing, …
Making my homelab smarter - Part 2
Back in Part 1 I waffled on about the sad state of my internet and what I intended to do about it.
Why should I care about pfSense?
Well, in my case, …