Category: Networking
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Your Own E-Mail Server With Amazon SES
Who This Is For Use multiple AWS features to forward emails when your ISP blocks SMTP from your homelab for a low price point. If you’re like me, you do not have a business class internet plan from your ISP. Therefore, it is likely that your ISP blocks SMTP whether it’s inbound, outbound, or bidirectionally.…
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Network Upgrade and Intro to Servers
After a few years, I knew I wanted to build a server and have my own rack. Being naive, I thought I could build one following a post I found on Reddit. After spending way more than initially planned, I realize I could have just bought a 22U rack and been a wash but I…
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Intro to Networking
After starting down the rabbit hole of Pi-Hole and DNS, I decided it was time to begin segregating my network into vlans, and more specifically, an IoT vlan. I learned how much my IoT devices were trying to track me or phone home thanks to the Pi-Hole network. I decided to grab my first Unifi…
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Pi-Hole and SAMBA
Upon first learning of being able to block ads on your home network, I had to jump on this train. But, of course, this wouldn’t be enough. This was the start of my entire journey. I began with a single pi, then bought a second soon after to have a failover Pi-Hole. I started with…