Author name: Travis

When you install Proxmox, it will create default local storage called local-lvm. This is a thin pool so it allows you to over-provision your storage space on your VMs. You need to be careful when over-provisioning as bad things can happen when you run out of space. When I have a server with more than […]

After some server maintenance, I’ve noticed that one of my servers just isn’t right. I don’t know exactly what happened, but the network doesn’t want to work. Since I treat all my servers as cattle and not pets (and even then there’s some debate within the DevOps community about this ?), I’d rather just rebuild

If you don’t already know, I run a web hosting business. In the fall last year, I moved into a full colo rack. In the colo, I run a mix of my own stuff plus my business (after all, I have the space, I might as well use it!). But one thing kept cropping up

It’s been nearly a month since I was diagnosed with ADHD-PI. To say it’s been interesting is an understatement. On one hand, I am happy I finally have answers for everything that I felt was wrong with me. On the other, I have answers for everything that is wrong with me. The meds My doctor

This is a deviation from my normal technical babble. Instead, I’m going to dive into mental health for a little bit. Specifically, mine. I don’t think we talk about or care enough about mental health in the United States. And when we do talk about it, there’s a lot of negative stigma around it. So

Or, the laptop Apple should have given us in 2016. I’m not much of a tech “reviewer”. In fact, I gave my own little review of the MacBook Pro M1 earlier this summer. At the end of that review, I said: Ultimately, I am going to be returning this laptop back to Apple. As much

There are valid reasons for wanting to override DNS on your network. Maybe you’re in a corporate environment and you want to prevent people from using outside DNS which would render AD useless. Maybe you’re in a school and you want to make sure students are filtered appropriately. Or maybe at home, you just want

This is something I never thought I’d actually need until the other weekend I went out of town for a wedding. Everything was going smoothly with my remote access until 7:41 AM on Saturday and suddenly I couldn’t reach anything. I try to pull up my doorbell camera – no connection. I try to reach

This post is inspired by a popular tech YouTuber teaching what is essentially a reverse proxy. While there is a time and a place for such technologies, your home network is not one of them. He starts off by saying you have a lot of stuff at home and you might want to give access

So in a first for me, I correctly predicted macOS Monterey. Called it. https://t.co/CjFIoHqIlT — TechTrav (@TechTrav) June 7, 2021 After getting the developer beta installed on my test Mac, I started poking around. iCloud+ Since I pay for iCloud storage, I got iCloud+. Some of these features are really awesome! The major features here