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Routing Mess

Well, I got a router to get better control over my network. I have an ISP that shall not be named that wouldn't let me get certain perks unless I use their router/modem hybrid motherfucker. It has a disgusting lack of configuration, so I bit the bullet and got a TP-Link AX1800 router from Wal-Mart. I hear these things die after a few years BUT it already has granted so much more control over my network than the other thing. I can finally route all DNS through Lenny (Raspberry Pi) so I'm utilizing Pi-hole to its fullest.

UNFORTUNATELY I did not prepare properly for the move, so I ended up blowing up my Proxmox cluster. I just acquired a very old Gateway PC from like, 2012, and I've been using it as a second member of my cluster (the Nuclear cluster). His name is Nicholas and he's got a 5 dollar terabyte drive that's used but passes the smart check. However, after switching over to the new router and following some instructions improperly for the Proxmox install on Julian (Gateway PC) and Adelle (Dell PC), the Nuclear Cluster royally broke and I had to reinstall on Julian and remove Adelle from the cluster. I also had to update Caddy and a bunch of other services to make everything work again because I moved from one IP address scheme to another.

Anyway, let me tell you about getting Julian (Gateway). I found this computer part store that's just full of computer junk. Anything and everything. My boyfriend drove me over there and I went in with him and the place is LINED with COMPUTERS and computer parts and computers running without cases and it was just BEAUTIFUL. I'm poking through PCs, trying to find a cheap one I can make into a NAS, and it's kinda hard because I'm in a wheelchair and all the PCs are on the ground and it's a small place, so my boyfriend starts poking around too. And then he goes, "HEY LOOK", and he rotates a desktop PC around and IT'S A GATEWAY! An old-ass Gateway. And I just had to bring it home!

Then today I found a PC for like 10 bucks, but it doesn't have RAM. It's once again a Dell.

I also brought home another Dell that I plan to make my media server. Any ideas on names?

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Nextcloud success!

It's been a while, but I've finally succeeded at spinning up something that caused me to start this journey to begin with: Nextcloud! Unfortunately, it's very slow and it's kind of eating up a ton of resources from my homeserver. I'd like to add another RAM stick to it, but we all know how that went last time. The RAM works just fine in my friend's computer, so I'm not sure if the socket is bad in the motherboard or if it just doesn't play nice with what else I've got in there. Oh well.

If I want to start adding new computers to the Proxmox network, it's going to have to be old laptops I can grab from the thrift store or something. Unfortunately, I have to get some money to dump on a new NVMe drive for my Pi since the one I have is SATA or something and it won't accept it. Adelle will take it, but Lenny won't.

There are also a few more servers I need to get going, like Calibre-Web, Atsumeru, etc. We'll see how that goes in the future. Soon the only thing left for my gaming PC to do is the media server, which seems to be the only thing it's okay doing without getting irritated.