Why I Choose Open Source Over Commercial Monitoring
The real debate isn't open source vs commercial. It's about what your team can support.
Category Infrastructure & Operations
Enterprise infrastructure projects: monitoring, networking, logging, security architecture, and cost analysis.
Building My First Proxmox Server
I needed a VMware alternative. Proxmox gave me enterprise virtualization for free.
The Cloudflare Tunnel That Changed Everything
How a Cloudflare Tunnel turned my home lab from isolated to accessible for $8.50.
Hosting My Own WordPress Site
From LAMP stacks to Docker containers: how I built and rebuilt my own WordPress site over the years.
You Should Have a Home on the Internet
Why every IT professional should own their name as a domain and what I learned setting mine up.
Why I Got Back Into Hands-On Tech
A senior IT director explains why he went back to building infrastructure after years in management.