Topic
Administered
The day-to-day of running systems — users, services, backups, monitoring, upkeep.
Every VM, every night: homelab backups to the Time Capsule
Nightly vzdump backups on all three Proxmox hosts, pushed to a Time Capsule on the LAN and pruned to four copies per guest. The pruning had never worked: one host's disk filled to 98.8% and every backup on it failed before the bug was found. Fixing it freed about 530 GB.
A self-hosted Minecraft server, run with Crafty
A Paper Minecraft server on its own VM on the third Proxmox host, managed with Crafty Controller, with Geyser so phones and consoles can join the Java world. The panel stays LAN-only, and this site shows the server's live status without exposing anything new.
Active Directory Domain Services
Building a minimal AD DS lab in VirtualBox: a static-IP Windows Server promoted to domain controller for adlab.com, DNS on the DC, and clients joined to the domain — with the DNS and time-sync warnings left open for follow-up.