So hey. I know I've been slow as hell getting more space available for Lain.la, and that hosting article is a CHORE to read through and is full of caveats and "don't do this" statements and blah blah blah. So I am retiring it. It's going away. Everyone who has resources from me now - you can keep them forever. I will keep it all running for you. But new requests? Outside of ludicrous proposals that I'd be morbidly curious to fill (e.g. I need 128GB of RAM - for science!), nope. This offer is over. Here's why:

It's February, and I have a lot on my plate for the entire year. I wanted to give everyone an update on where I'm at with my projects. Yes, plural. We have two in the pipe:

Lain.la 4.0 is a significant rebuild of my entire environment, and encapsulates the Proxmox project and the associated hardware. I have just completed the designs and charts for it. Most of these things are already in place, but some are "future desired state" and not in play yet. Still, I wanted to show you the charts so you can see where we are going.

Today I find inspiration to write not about infrastructure or servers or Proxmox, but instead on musings about corporate IT.

I like this contemplative fellow above. He looks like me, trying to find a way not to write "Fuck off" in an email where I really want the person to fuck off.

Hello again! I apologize for taking so long to do yet another article. I am currently doing some patches over the weekend for work servers, and procrastinating on doing this quarter's cert rotation procedure. I figure I'd weaponize that procrastination to write an article to let everyone know I'm alive, and what I'm working on.

Hello! It is time for my triumphant return to blog writing and Lain.la development. My usual cadence of writing at least one article per month was severely disrupted this year, but for good reasons. Much has happened behind the scenes that I would consider to be just as valid "work" as anything else, most of it was just generally intangible. However, we can try to bring it to reality. I have many pictures, and many more things to share than a usual blog post. Let's get it all out on (virtual) paper! This post's going to be a big one.

Hello dear reader! I want to apologize for it taking me until March to get my first article of the year out, but man has it been a wild ride these past few months, and I have so much news to share. Here's an overview of the big things going on this month:

Hello once again! It's been a long time since I've done a metrics post, I know. I'm sorry. Lots of stuff happening.

It sure has been a long time since we've had one of these, huh?

Note: I decided to get significantly inebriated on moonshine for this post because I write like a real stick in the mud. Hope it helps.

One of the things that has consistently bothered me about Lain.la is the domain name I chose. To be frank: It sucks! Here's why: