As part of my Home DNS Rebuild I decided to use Bind for DNS resolution and Terraform Cloud as an IaC Solution to manage DNS. Using Terraform gives me a lot of options to automate the creation and deletion of DNS entries as part of my workflows and infrastructure lifecycles. With Terraform managing state does […]
Category: The Home Datacenter Company Build Series
Enhancing Home DNS: Merging PiHole & Bind9 for Superior DNS
It’s Always DNS. This might be a joke but more times than I would like to admit, this was the case. I have in the past gone through various DNS setups, and they all worked but was never what I really wanted. But I also did not have a concrete definition of what I wanted. […]
Setting up my Synology NAS for my Homelab
Any business or homelab will at some point require shared storage. Even thou there are many solution out there to build your own NAS I found the easy of use and compatibility of Synology or QNAP NAS systems worth the extra initial capital investment, They just work. I have a Synology DS415+ that came from […]
Setting Up my UniFi Dream Machine for my Homelab
The UniFi Dream Machine might not be the Ultimate Firewall for your homelab. pfSense might be more Hands on, or running a Palo Alto of Cisco Firewall more Enterprise like. But the Dream Machine does have all the features I require, Good Support and a Pretty Interface. The Home Datacenter company also considered all there […]
The Home Datacenter Company
Starting a new business(Homelab) is not an easy task. Part of the tasks that might fall into your area. The IT infrastructure for a new Business is challenging. Budgets are generally small, Skills are expensive, time is tight and requirements are ever changing. a Lot of startups might choose to go directly to the cloud. […]