homelab – Slatehorizon

Home Lab – Update & Diagram

Posted on March 11, 2022 by Alan / 0 Comment

For many years, I had a Dell PowerEdge 710 as the compute node of my home lab. In 2021 I finally decided to cross-grade to a cluster and reduce power consumptio...

homelab/icinga/linux/monitoring/projects

Icinga 2 Quick Start

Posted on July 12, 2014 by Alan / 0 Comment

My lab network has been missing monitoring for its entire existence, and a week ago, I would have considered it the only major software category not present. So...

esx/freenas/homelab/linux/pfsense/projects

Home Lab Setup

Posted on July 11, 2014 by Alan / 0 Comment

Been making a good bit of changes since my last post. It’s been almost a year, so that’s not surprising. In this post, I just want to bring the blog...

homelab/projects

Using HAProxy to Host Multiple Subdomains

Posted on July 1, 2013 by Alan / 0 Comment

I was recently given cause to find an alternative to Dropbox for syncing files and creating a basic backup. I wanted to host this on my own systems on my home n...

homelab/projects

Quick Lab Update

Posted on May 22, 2011 by Alan / 3 Comments

I’ve been ignoring the blog, not the work. Took a bit more time than I would have liked, but I’ve got everything up. Well, except the switch. Not co...

homelab/projects

New Home Lab Ordered

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Alan / 0 Comment

Well, I ordered hardware for my new lab Wednesday night. Several packages should be arriving today, but it will be Wednesday next week til the rest of the packa...

homelab/projects

vSphere Essentials Kit

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Alan / 0 Comment

I’ve been looking into some upgrades for my home lab. I’ve talked myself out of hardware (for the minute) but started looking into vSphere improvem...