Yeah, my Proxmox cluster hasn’t even been fully operational for 48 hours yet, and I’m already writing an article titled “Mistakes Were Made.” I genuinely wish I had known some of this beforehand, because it would have saved me time and, quite possibly, money. Storage I am already running out of storage. Yes. Not even…
Proxmox HA is alive!
This weekend was D-Day for my Proxmox HA/Ceph cluster. Spoiler alert! It actually runs! And yes, this took way longer than expected, and I had a serious run-in with Mr. Murphy. More on that later. Photos All three nodes, side by side. And yes, I bought another NOX 010 case. It differs from the NOX…
Yay, my first network switch with an attitude
I’ve owned plenty of network gear over the years. Great routers, crappy routers, access points, cheap switches, expensive ones, silent ones and extremely loud ones! You plug them in, they boot, lights blink, life goes on. My new MiktroTik CS309 is a different animal altogether. I accidentally pulled the power from it. I was trying…
Reacher update 17-01-2026
Time for a Reacher update. First official weigh-in for the Tweakers Weight Loss Challenge ( TWLC ). This morning the scale showed 110.5kg. I lost 0.4kg this week. Not the pace I wanted but hey, lower is lower! Brain out.
What if. I went completely insane for a day
What if I went completely insane for a day and got hold of the most absurd hardware solution I could ever have wished for? What would that look like? And yes. I will go completely overboard. And yes, that is a solid understatement. Updates I’ve updated the article. I found the pricing of the 1U…
Proxmox HA host update
It has been a while since I posted an update about my Proxmox homelab. Memory I upgraded the “Logos” from 64 GB to 96 GB after finding a reasonably priced 2×32 GB memory kit. After installation, I ran extensive MemTest86 checks; everything passed without issues. Unfortunately, memory prices are going through the roof at the…
Reacher update 10-01-2026
Time for a Reacher update. The last couple of months I deliberately took a step back. Maintenance mode, less pushing. That was intentional. With the new year, it’s time to move forward again. Since September I’ve gained some weight. Part of that is muscle. Part of it is the fluffy stuff I don’t want, and…
The Obligatory Autistic Christmas
Christmas is often described as the nicest time of the year. For me, it isn’t. This piece explores how obligation, tradition, and neurodivergent nervous systems can turn togetherness into something draining rather than connecting.
Proxmox software update
And a sooner-than-expected software update, or rather; a VM update. Today I migrated the three remaining VMs from my office node to my main Proxmox host at home. All three VMs belong together: a PostgreSQL database, a Python development machine, and an Nginx reverse proxy. As I had never migrated VMs before, it sounded like…
And another Proxmox update!
It is now almost a year ago that I started my Proxmox journey. Almost exactly a year ago Microsoft decided to push the infamous Windows 11 update and subsequently wrecking my homeserver in the process. And right now, I have a few more interesting things to talk about. Hardware “Node 3” is almost finished. I…