Infrastructure

Most people see an old computer sitting beside a dumpster and think: “Yeah… somebody finally got rid of that thing.” Me? I saw potential. Now before anybody starts judging me yes, I know how this sounds. But if you’re in the homelab world, into computers, electronics, or just like tinkering with tech, then you already know the truth: Old hardware isn’t dead hardware. It’s just waiting for somebody nerdy enough to resurrect it. ...

Back in 2022, accessing my homelab remotely meant one of two things: either I was VPN’d in, or I was squinting at a sticky note trying to remember whether Grafana was on port 3000 or 3001. I had a growing list of services Proxmox, Grafana, Prometheus, Dashy, TrueNAS and every single one lived behind an IP address and a port number that I had to memorize, write down, or look up. 192.168.1.10:8006. 192.168.1.15:3000. 192.168.1.20:9090. It worked, but it wasn’t infrastructure. It was chaos with a static IP. ...