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Server Rack Pet-Project: UPS (Part 2)

After quite a lot of suffering and sweating with my new UPS I managed to finally have it working.…

Server Rack Pet-Project: UPS (Part 1)

Now that I have something that is network-connected and which I could use finally, it is time to make sure it has continuous electricity to keep things stable. I picked another deal and managed to get an APC Smart-UPS SC450, with almost new batteries (just 6 months old).…

Server Rack Pet-Project: Switch

After having done a little tweak to the rack, I started tackling the networking side. I bought a network switch, I have already 2 Raspberry Pi, so finally, I can connect them to the network, then let them do something (not yet sure what though). Because those Pis without connection they’ll be useless.…

Server Rack Pet-Project: Wheels

Now that I have got my cool rack assembled I noticed the mess it made on my floor. Unfortunately, I was so busy cleaning it right away, that I didn’t take any pictures of it. 26kg of an empty rack, which most likely is going to be something like 40kg once filled, on my parquet… with screws’ heads scratching it…

Server Rack Pet-Project: Initial Assembling

Today I’ll be covering the first phase of my new pet project: a server rack. So let’s start with ordering a new rack. Even though most of what I’ll put inside will be second-hand material to save some money, for the rack itself I chose it to be brand new. I ordered this:…

Server Rack Pet-Project

This will be an unusual pet project compared to the one I’ve always done as a programmer. Since I started to get more involved in the infrastructure side, and later in cloud-native, I was always happily dealing with server configuration, process optimisation, provisioning, infrastructure-as-code, and so on.…

Past Year Review (2021)

It’s again that time of the year, the end of it, the moment where we stop, we look back and check how we did. Have we been able to do all the things we wanted to do? Of course not. But what matter most is what has been achieved. Let’s abandon the regrets and let’s focus on what’s next. Every…

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Save yourself from a disaster #10: Play with Providers

This is the tenth part of the series Save yourself from a disaster: Redundancy on a budget. Try to experiment and find the right technology.…

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Save yourself from a disaster #9: Disaster Recovery Plan

This is the ninth part of the series Save yourself from a disaster: Redundancy on a budget. How are you going to behave in the event of a disaster? You’ll start running around waving your hands up in the air? Ok, stop, breathe, and try to follow these advices.…

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Save yourself from a disaster #8: Manual Configurations

This is the eighth part of the series Save yourself from a disaster: Redundancy on a budget. Snowflakes servers are our enemies, we should avoid them like the plague. Our best allied are fail-proof reproducible steps, even better if coded in an actionable code, like Infrastructure as Code. We went through many steps, are you sure you remember all the…

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