The Beginning: A Custom Ruby on Rails Application It’s been quite the journey for my personal website. When I started over five years ago, I built it using a custom Ruby on Rails application. At t...

Introduction In the realm of IT automation, Ansible stands out as a powerful and user-friendly tool. It simplifies complex configuration tasks, manages server deployments, and orchestrates multi-t...

Introduction In this post, I’ll guide you through setting up your system to send emails using Gmail and sSMTP, a simple tool for those who need to send emails from their local machine. This is par...

So, in my previous article, I was struggling to get a new SAS disk to spin up. Now that I have that working, I want to get it to go into standby (spindown) when it’s idle for a while. Although hdpa...

I bought a used HGST 7K6000 SAS disk to add to one of my Norco 4224 cases at home. I have (3) H310s in this case flashed to IT mode to connect all of the disks to. When I installed the disk, the po...

Andrea, just released the latest version of SnapRAID. This version introduces split parity, which allows you to spread your parity files across numerous disks. This makes transitioning up to larger...

SnapRAID added a sweet feature, split parity. In the past, adding larger data disk always came with the issue of needing parity disks as large or larger than your data disks. For example, let’s say...

Website Upgrades It’s been a long time coming. I have finally updated my website from the custom Ruby on Rails application that I wrote over 5 years ago. At the time, I was doing a ton of Rails dev...

Trapexit’s MergerFS is awesome. He has some great documentation on the README, but I just wanted to share a couple of quick examples I use all the time. Let’s say you have a MergerFS pool mounted a...

Docker Docker is a fantastic way to run applications in containers separate from your host OS. But, you may ask why bother doing this or why not use VMs instead? Docker is not a replacement for vi...