Where We Left Off Part 15 was about moving the configs off GitHub to Codeberg. The infrastructure was in a decent place. Two servers running, monitoring up, backups humming. Things were... fine. Then nixos decided to go silent. Power light on. Sitting there looking perfectly fine. No SSH. No DNS. No VNC. Just......

Part 6 of “Building a Resilient Home Server” Series Where We Left Off In Part 5, I added comprehensive monitoring to the server—Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Promtail, Alertmanager, and ntfy. The server could now tell me when things went wrong before I noticed them myself. But there was something else I’d been wanting to...

*Part 4 of "Building a Resilient Home Server" series* Where We Left Off In Part 3, we got the custom NixOS ISO working and deployed to real hardware. AdGuard Home was running, the server was stable, and I had a reproducible installation process. Victory, right? Well, sort of. The server was working, but it was still...

*Part 3 of "Building a Resilient Home Server" series*The Great Migration (and So Many Stairs) At the end of Part 2, I had a working NixOS VM with AdGuard Home, SSH, and basic Zsh configuration. The VM was my playground—safe to break, easy to restore. But the real goal was getting this onto actual hardware. I had an...

*Part 2 of "Building a Resilient Home Server" series* After my EndeavourOS server died, I decided to try NixOS for its declarative configuration and reproducibility. But I wasn't about to deploy straight to production hardware. Time to spin up a VM and learn. The VM Playground I installed NixOS 25.05 in VirtualBox with...

*Part 1 of "Building a Resilient Home Server" series* 4:00 PM on a Tuesday Generator maintenance. Annual checkup. The guy was just finishing up. Testing the handover from utility to generator, generator back to utility. Standard procedure. Then: streaming stopped mid-show. UPS units started screaming. Something was...