Tag: proxmox
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The Detector Was Never Looking
A neural network running at 5.8 milliseconds an inference, pointed at a room with cats in it, that had never once detected a cat.
I have an NVR. It runs in a container on one of the cluster nodes, it does object detection on that node’s integrated GPU, and it is fast: 5.84 milliseconds per inference, sitting at about 6% of what the detector can do. Person events come in with confidence scores between 0.73 and 0.93, which is healthy.
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Five Copies, Two and a Half Fault Domains
3-2-1 is the rule everyone quotes. Three copies of your data, on two different media, with one offsite. It is a good floor and it is easy to think you have cleared it when you have not.
I counted my copies earlier this year and got five. Primary NAS (NAS1), secondary NAS (NAS2), a cold box, a drive at the office, and OneDrive. Comfortably past the bar. Then I counted what could fail independently and got roughly two and a half.
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I Built a Dashboard for the Things I Actually Check
Five separate logins became one page. The interesting part was how often I turned out to be wrong.
I check five things regularly: whether the homelab is healthy, my portfolio, my health trend, whatever trip is coming up, and my to-do list. Each one lived somewhere different. Each had its own login. None of them talked to each other. I have to go looking for information by opening a browser, going to my bookmarks page and finding the right tile to click:
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Home Network Topology 2026: The Full Map
Between the 2024 network upgrade post and the Homelab 1.0 post, I’ve talked a lot about individual components — the 10G switches, the Proxmox cluster, the NAS stack. But I’ve never actually drawn the full picture of how everything connects. Partly because it was always evolving, and partly because I suspect I was slightly embarrassed about how complicated it had gotten.
Well, here it is.
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Homelab 1.0: Compute, Storage, and Power
I’m back for my annual update on the state of my home network (state-of-the-network?)
This year, I’ve gone in at the deep-end with a full 3-node Proxmox cluster for compute, and expanded from 2 to 3 storage servers.