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Before buying any hardware, I researched what it would take to run a self-hosted bird-sound ID service on the homelab: which BirdNET-Pi to use, the hardware it needs, and how it fits a segmented network. Here is the plan I landed on, and why I shelved it.
Decision analysis for LXC+Docker vs VM deployment, hybrid networking strategy for UniFi device communication, and troubleshooting firewall and IP configuration issues.
The process of evaluating self-hosted homepage solutions for a homelab, what I learned about the options, and why I chose Dashy for a centralized service dashboard.
A troubleshooting story about why SSH connections to one RouterOS switch took 55x longer than other devices, the systematic investigation that ruled out DNS and configuration, and how we tracked it down to a crypto subsystem bug on Marvell switch SoCs.
How I built a high-availability Traefik setup across two Raspberry Pis using Keepalived for automatic failover, and the challenges of port conflicts and configuration synchronization.
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