Blog

This is the blog section. It has two categories: News and Releases.

Files in these directories will be listed in reverse chronological order.

Posts in 2026
  • Five years of vSan, Gluster, and Ceph

    Thursday, January 29, 2026 in Blog

    We used to have a headache at least once a year - ‘we have to reboot/patch the SAN’. Whether isilon, symmetrix, clariion. shark or just plain old NFS on ZFS, it’s a pain when you have 100s of servers running on it. We were always …

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Posts in 2025
  • biennial

    Sunday, June 29, 2025 in Blog

    Still plugging away, but mostly adding new content as I finish projects. That puts me at about 150 pages or so. Roughly one every two weeks since my last measurement. I have about 300 old docs to look at - that should translate into about 50 actual …

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Posts in 2024
  • Bots in 30 min

    Friday, February 23, 2024 in Blog

    I was surprised the other day to see intrusion attempts targeting a site I’d just created - by host name. It wasn’t published yet, it was an obscure name - how could anyone even know? Well, any site you create in caddy will go out and get …

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Posts in 2023
  • Progress

    Wednesday, October 04, 2023 in Blog

    The journey of a thousand files begins with a single fax. Me, a Y2K project, back when faxes were a thing. Here we are 6 months later and I’ve ported a hundred files or so. Mostly written or re-written as I tackle new projects. 400 left to go, …

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  • Commissioning

    Tuesday, April 25, 2023 in Blog

    To the most beautiful moment in life! Better than the deed. Better than the memory. The moment… of anticipation. Jacques, The Simpsons, Season 1 As I de-alpabet my infrastructure, I’ve deployed a new web content management system. After …

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