• 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).

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  • 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.

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  • 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… […]

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  • 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:

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  • 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.

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  • 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 […]

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