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Self Hosting – Local DNS resolution network wide?

Hey guys, I just wanted to share a little trick I stumble on and that I find works SUPER well! Basically, I do have a bunch of services running on my servers (which is probably the expected behaviour of having a rack with servers in 🤓). These services all have different IPs (gotta love containerization) […]

Ellie
Last modified on October 17, 2026

Self Hosting – Little cabling upgrade & display info

Hey Folks, just a quick note on a really nice little bit of upgrade I did on my network rack. Also, while I’m here, I realized that I never posted the screen setup I got on the rack! So initially, I had plans for an integrated display on the rack where I would display the […]

Ellie
Published on October 7, 2026

Self Hosting – How much shield is too much shield?

So, with the new home, I decided to wire the whole place with new network cable (there was none originally) and I was not a huge fan of having a wire going from the back of the first floor to the front of that first floor, very “feet hookable” problem in fact. So I decided […]

Ellie
Last modified on June 17, 2026

Self Hosting – Blog, once again, with SSL.

Finally managed to figure out what was wrong. so guys, enjoy the fresh SSL config for the site! 😛 Basically, the thing I was doing, I was trying to forward in nginx proxy manager, the call to port 443 on HTTPS, but the service internally does run on HTTP 80. so, OBVIOUSLY, nginx was trying […]

Ellie
Last modified on June 16, 2026

Self Hosting – Blog, Now *WITHOUT* SSL (sigh)

Welp, with the new VM hosts and all that fun stuff, I broke my SSL setup for my blog. I really need to start adding more documentation on Bookstack to track how I fix things… for the future. 😭

Ellie
Published on June 14, 2026

Self Hosting – Blog, Now *WITH* SSL

So, I’ve been running my blog through one of my server and, I was having trouble to get SSL enabled through nginx proxy manager. For some reason, it was just not letting the data through when I was activating it. I figured out what was the problem. When I setup my router in opnSense, I […]

Ellie
Last modified on August 20, 2025

The self hosting adventure

Since I’ve been a much shorter human, I’ve always admired computer servers and enterprise level computing. I sworn to myself I’d get a server rack at some point in my life to host my own stuff. The dream we very much an active one as in the past, I’ve managed to collect a shell of […]

Ellie
Published on August 15, 2025

DIY Pinecil v2 power cable

I swear, this is by far the BEST bench upgrade I ever did. In the past, I’ve been using USB-C to power my soldering iron and my best power brick was able to output 9v at best (keep in mind, I didn’t had the best power brick). Heating up solder on ground planes was a […]

Ellie
Published on August 14, 2025

Attempt to repair a cracked PCB

With a title like that, you can figure out that it didn’t went extremely well. 🙁 Nonetheless, let’s start from the start shall we? I was presented with a wireless charger circuit that had a crack in the PCB near the USB-C connector. Normally these kind of gizmos are so cheap, they’re just going to […]

Ellie
Published on August 13, 2025

NanoICSP – pt2

Part 2 : Received, installed and… need debugging? I received the package shortly! most impressed by the quality too! I might have been a tiny little bit overexcited to receive my first PCBs too but that’s another story. 🙂 I started to assemble the first one and within minutes I had one assembled (I think […]

Ellie
Published on January 19, 2025