SumGuy's Ramblings
The art of wasting time.
Docker, self-hosting, AI/LLM, Linux, and DevOps — explained by someone who learned the hard way. No fluff, no enterprise jargon, just practical stuff that actually works on real hardware.
Recent Posts
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Bots Ate 90% of My Worker Quota
A WordPress login bot burned 90% of my Cloudflare Workers free tier in two hours attacking a site that has never run PHP. Here's what actually stopped it.
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Mimir + Grafana: Long-Term Prometheus Storage
Mimir for long-term Prometheus storage. S3-backed, horizontally scaled alternative to Thanos for capacity planning and compliance.
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Loki vs Vector for Log Shipping
Promtail vs Vector: which log shipping agent fits your setup? Loki's purpose-built simplicity or Vector's transform power and multiple sinks.
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Prometheus Federation for Multi-Site Home Labs
Prometheus federation for multi-site home labs: hierarchical scraping, cross-cluster aggregation, federation vs remote_write, practical config.
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rclone Crypt: Encrypted Cloud Buckets That Stay Yours
Client-side encryption with rclone crypt keeps your cloud backups opaque to providers. Key management, filename encryption, and restore drills for B2, S3, Drive.
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TrueNAS Apps vs Docker on TrueNAS Scale
TrueNAS Scale ditched Kubernetes for native Docker. Apps catalog vs raw Compose, when each wins, dataset snapshots, and why custom apps took so long.
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NFS vs SMB vs SSHFS vs WebDAV for Home Lab
Four file-sharing protocols for home lab networks: NFS (fast, Linux-native), SMB (Windows-friendly, ACLs), SSHFS (encrypted, portable), WebDAV (HTTP-based). When to use each.
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Filesystem Decision Matrix: ext4 vs XFS vs ZFS vs Btrfs
Linux filesystem comparison: ext4 for safety, XFS for scale, ZFS for snapshots, Btrfs for flexibility. Pick the right tool for your workload.
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Cold Archive: B2 vs Storj vs Scaleway Glacier
Compare cold storage tiers: Backblaze B2, Storj decentralized cloud, and Scaleway Glacier. Pricing, egress, restore times, and which backup service wins.
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Off-Site Encrypted Backup with rsync.net
Why rsync.net is the no-BS off-site backup target for Restic and Borg: SSH-only ZFS, free snapshots, honest $5/TB pricing, and no egress fee ambush.
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ZFS Tuning for SSDs and NVMe
ZFS tuning for SSDs and NVMe: ARC sizing, recordsize, autotrim, sync modes, and why defaults built for spinning rust fail on flash.
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SigNoz vs Jaeger for Tracing
Jaeger does distributed tracing only; SigNoz bundles traces, metrics, and logs. Which should you self-host? Here's the honest breakdown.
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