server

Why right? Short answer, I had 2 server builds and 1 of them smoked in the literal sense. Smoke was coming from the CPU socket and I had to put the air purifier in max to get rid of the awful smell. It was supposed to be a ProxMox build to host all of my VMs in my home lab. What an epic fail! Smoked Build It was my first time ever building PCs that went horribly wrong. [Read More]

I made the jump to buy a license for my Unraid box and finally writing this blog post to elaborate what I’ve done with it. Such simplicity with the power to do anything you can imagine off of a home server. I still think I’m only scratching the surface here, haven’t even begun to maximize my usage. There are a few more new additions to the box I want to talk about in this blog post. [Read More]

This started with a spare CPU and a dead motherboard. Had an Intel Core i3 6100 lying around with 16 gigs of memory sticks. Was leaning towards an AMD Hackintosh but Youtube convinced me unRAID is my next curiousity target. So I build a PC (again). PCPartPicker Part List Type Item CPU Intel Core i3-6100 3.7 GHz Dual-Core Processor CPU Cooler Intel E97379-001 CPU Cooler Motherboard Biostar RACING Z170GTN Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard Memory G. [Read More]

For the past month, I’ve been pleasantly hacking my Cubieboard to try out several different things. This time, I wanna know how performant Cubieboard is. Benchmarks are configured in such a way to replicate a real Web Application. Preparing Here are the specs for my Cubieboard: AllWinner A10 ARM Single Core CPU 1 GB DDR3 @ 480 MHz 5V / 2A = 10 Watts SATA HD - 5400 RPM Cubian r7 - http://cubian. [Read More]

So these past days, I’ve been looking for a nifty replacement (new home) for hostingMUREH.com - The only webhosting with 10 gigs web space for just 200K/year! Sorry for the hard selling gesture, completely intentional :p After a few sessions with Google, I stumbled CloudSigma.com, it comes with a 7 days free trial I might add. First look at its website does not resemble anything like the other cloud server providers. [Read More]