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My New ADS-B Flight Tracking Setup

My New ADS-B Flight Tracking Setup

I just installed my Flight Tracking setup, here are the details Here is a list of the components I bought, along with the price and where I got them from. * Raspberry Pi 3 B+ - $30 from Microcenter * SanDisk Ultra 32GB microSDHC UHS-I card - $7 from Amazon * SB Components

Traefik Reverse-Proxy Setup with Let's Encrypt in Docker

Traefik Reverse-Proxy Setup with Let's Encrypt in Docker

I am using Traefik together with Let's Encrypt to have automatic reverse proxy setup with valid SSL certs for my Docker containers. Here is how I set it up First, make sure that port 80 and 443 are not being used by any other containers on your Docker

My Overly Complicated iOS Camera Upload Solution

My Overly Complicated iOS Camera Upload Solution

This solution will transfer photos photos from my iPhone to my home NAS automatically (Or manually) based on location, and its all self-hosted and encrypted. I used to use Dropbox for getting images from my iPhone, to a computer, but I wanted a better solution. I had several issues with

VMware VCP 6.5 Data Center Virtualization Certification Passed!

VMware VCP 6.5 Data Center Virtualization Certification Passed!

Just before the new year I tool the VCP6.5-DCV Exam, and passed! If that's not an excuse to buy more hardware, I don't know what is...

Ghost on Docker + Office 365 SMTP

Ghost on Docker + Office 365 SMTP

Here is how to get Ghost running in Docker to use Office 365 to send emails via SMTP I wanted to do this, and there were no guides. This could also be adapted for a native install, just add the options to your config.production.json file using the official

Using CloudFlare to lower bandwidth and latency

Using CloudFlare to lower bandwidth and latency

Yesterday my blog was busier than usual, and it highlighted why you should be using CloudFlare's CDN to significantly lower the bandwidth to your web server From around 11AM to 7PM my website used around 280GB of bandwidth thanks to very image heavy posts, and a lot more

What Virtual Machines Am I Running?

What Virtual Machines Am I Running?

Almost all of the servers in my homelab run inside virtual machines, here are all of them (Subject to change, very quickly...) Everything runs under ESXi 6.7 and is managed by vCenter Server 6.7 via the appliance. I have two ESXi hosts, one at home and one which

What Docker Containers Am I Running?

What Docker Containers Am I Running?

Quite a few of the applications I run in my lab run inside Docker containers. Here they are I used to run everything directly in Ubuntu Server virtual machines, but it made moving and upgrading services very difficult. Ubuntu 18 was also a dumpster fire in my opinion, so instead

Homelab power upgrade

Homelab power upgrade

I recently upgraded the UPS equipment in my lab. I moved from a single APC SMT1000RM2U and added a SMX1500RM2U and another one of the CyberPower PDU15M2F10R PDU's This brings the setup to the following: UPS01 - SMT1000RM2U with APC AP9631 Network Card UPS02 - SMX1500RM2U with APC

Finding unknown IP of a device on your network

Finding unknown IP of a device on your network

You just bought a network device which is already configured with a static IP, and you don't know what it is. This is how you can find it. I had to do this recently when I bought an APC Network card which would not factory reset. This means

Private Internet Access VPN on pfSense 2.4.4 guide

Private Internet Access VPN on pfSense 2.4.4 guide

PLEASE READ! See updated guide here - https://blog.networkprofile.org/private-internet-access-vpn-on-pfsense/ ****BELOW MIGHT NOT WORK ANYMORE AS THERE HAVE BEEN SERVER CHANGES**** Here is how I have Private Internet Access (PIA) setup on both of my pfSense firewalls. This setup has worked perfectly for me and does not interfere

Silencing the Supermicro SuperChassis 826

Silencing the Supermicro SuperChassis 826

A few months ago I purchased a system based on the Supermicro SuperChassis 826, and it was way too loud. It includes three very powerful and loud 80mm fans. The model is FAN-0126L4. Since I had an X9 board (X9DRW-CTF31) there is no way to send raw IMPI fan control

How I made my blog.

How I made my blog.

I recently decided to make this blog, and quite a few people suggested Ghost (What this blog is running). Here is now I made it First, I needed somewhere to host the blog. Luckily I have a colocated server (read about it here) I could host it on, but I

Rosewill Build Quality Fail.

Rosewill Build Quality Fail.

Back in 2017 I bought one of the highly regarded Rosewill RSV-2600 cases. It wasn't great. I had high exceptions since it was a very popular case, its even featured on the reddit.com/r/homelab banner As it turns out, the build quality was totally terrible. First,

Redundant M.2 SATA SSD's in pfSense Firewall

Redundant M.2 SATA SSD's in pfSense Firewall

This will be a short one since I have moved on from this configuration A year or two ago I wanted to have redundant SSD's in pfSense, and I happened to find some very cheap 32GB Hynix M.s SATA SSD's. I bought an M.2

10G SFP+ Mellanox ConnectX-2 in Synology DS1817+

10G SFP+ Mellanox ConnectX-2 in Synology DS1817+

This will be a short one, but there is almost no information out there about these cards in the Synology DS1817+ As of Jan 2020, this still works fine. I am running 6.2.2 with no issue I wanted to get a cheap 10G SFP+ card for my DS1817+

Quick and easy Snipe-It Docker Deployment

I wanted to very quickly get Snipe-it up and running, but none of the guides seemed very simple, and they all wanted advanced configuration. Running these commands as-is will result in a functional Snipe-it deployment at http://<your-docker-ip>:8082 First you want to create two folders on your

My Backup/Data Protection Plan

My Backup/Data Protection Plan

I have spent a lot of time ensuring that no matter what happens, my data is not only safe, but also accessible. Here is how I will break this into sections: Data Protection Data Replication Data Backup And I also have a diagram. Here it is, hopefully it makes it

My All-in-one colocated ESXi server

My All-in-one colocated ESXi server

I have a 1u Supermicro server colocated in a datacenter. I mainly use it for DR, Backups and hosting services which need to be on 24/7/365. Those services include this very blog, and my Nextcloud instance among other things. The datacenter is only a 10 minute drive away

Ruckus R510 Home Install

Ruckus R510 Home Install

I recently replaced my cursed Ubiquiti UniFi AP-AC Pro with a Ruckus R510 I got New on eBay for $150 Initially I had issues with my original Unifi AP, then I upgraded to the AP Pro which also had issues, and then I got the AP-AC Pro which had even

2017 Ford Escape VEDC

2017 Ford Escape VEDC

This is my VEDC (Vehicle Every Day Carry) that I keep in my 2017 Ford Escape. If you want to see more VEDC related posts, check out https://www.reddit.com/r/VEDC/ To steal the quote from wikipedia, EDC means: Everyday Carry refers to a small collection of tools,

My overkill 1u pfSense build

My overkill 1u pfSense build

Ever since my Ubiquiti EdgeRouter 3 died a few years ago, I have been running pfSense. I used to run it in a virtual machine under ESXi, however I wanted a physical box. This is what I have ended up with over a few years of changes This is its

First Post...

This is my new blog. I aim to post content about my homelab and general technology related content, as well as some EDC and VEDC type stuff. I usually post on reddit, however I feel like its not permanent enough as posts can often get downvoted or just ignored despite