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Hosting Options: When Free Beats Paid
A practical comparison of Cloudflare's free services against traditional shared hosting, VPS, and cloud providers. When does free hosting actually make sense?
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Insights on technology, leadership, productivity, and personal growth in the tech industry.
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Infrastructure
Rebalancing my Proxmox cluster and the Pi-hole outage I caused
After upgrading both nodes to 32GB RAM, the container distribution was skewed badly. A few migrations later, both Pi-holes were offline and DNS was down across the homelab.
Infrastructure
UniFi APs offline after restart: how the wrong config file path breaks everything
After a container restart, both APs went offline even though the controller was healthy. The cause: system_ip in /config/system.properties instead of /config/data/system.properties. UniFi silently ignores the root file and falls back to the Docker bridge IP.
Infrastructure
Fixing iCloud photos that all landed in Immich dated today
Years of iCloud photos imported into Immich showed up as taken today. The originals were missing DateTimeOriginal, so Immich fell back to file dates. One icloudpd flag fixed future downloads; ExifTool and the folder structure rescued the rest.
Infrastructure
Getting Nebula-Sync working with Pi-hole v6: stale passwords and a redirect trap
One of my Pi-hole replicas had zero local DNS records while the master had 78. The trail led through Pi-hole v6 app passwords that did not match my vault, and an HTTP to HTTPS redirect that quietly broke the sync client.
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