Home lab
Designing a Production Network and Cisco Lab in One Rack
How to share space, power, and documentation while keeping production services separate from experiments.
Topic previewFounder’s home-lab notes
Decisions, diagrams, and the occasional blinking amber light.
Working notes about home infrastructure, network tradeoffs, resilience, and learning through systems that are actually plugged in.
These are topic previews from the original site, not fabricated articles. Full write-ups will appear only when the underlying work is documented.
Field notes
Why I’m Moving Core Services to a Raspberry Pi
A practical look at moving DNS and lightweight monitoring to a dedicated low-power node.
Topic previewResilience
Planning UPS Protection for Brownouts and Graceful Shutdowns
Runtime targets, alerts, and shutdown order for a calmer response when the power gets weird.
Topic previewBuying well
Choosing a Managed Switch for a Home Infrastructure Stack
Ports, PoE budgets, VLAN support, updates, and the questions worth answering before choosing hardware.
Topic previewLearning log
Documenting My CCNA Journey Through Real Infrastructure
Turning networking study into a documented lab without experimenting on the household production network.
Topic preview