Experiments, lessons, and practical guides from running Linux services and personal infrastructure at home.
A scheduled job finishes without an error, a new archive appears on another disk, and its checksum matches. Is the database now recoverable? Those are useful signals, but they answer a narrower question: some backup material exists and can be read. They do no…
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A home server can keep answering HTTP requests while one of its drives is quietly accumulating errors. That creates a practical question: c…
A home server rarely stays simple for long. It starts with one web server, then a database joins, then a tunnel, then a monitoring agent, a…
Automatic Security Updates on Debian — Patch a Home Server Without Losing Control A home server can run quietly for months, which is both i…
Logrotate for a Home Server — Keep Logs Useful Without Letting Them Fill the Disk A home server can run quietly for months, which is exactl…
Some time ago, I realized that the server at home had been down since last night. Either because of a power outage, an automatic update t…
There were times when my terminal screen looked like an abandoned workbench: one tab for the frontend build, another for the server log…
Every year, the file size in my house gets bigger. Photos from cellphones, project screen recordings, operating system ISOs, container imag…
There was a moment where a service on the home server suddenly went down, but I didn't know where to start looking. Open a terminal, type s…
Several years ago, when I first used a used laptop as a home server, I spent hours just making sure one web application could run. There is…
