Infra Blog

Hello! This is the landing page for infrablog.lain.la, where I will discuss how I built this particular series of tubes.

This page will contain a collection of articles which I will manually direct you to. Please note that older articles may be out of date regarding the current infrastructure status.

Update 8/9/2025: Yes, I know I haven't written anything since February. I have a huge backlog of things I want to tell everyone about. I will get time to do so soon!

Special Articles:

• I don't need your money. But I have big ideas.

Frequently Updated Articles:

• A Catalog of Services I Run (For Free)
• What does Lain.La cost to run?
• Transparency
• Planned Lain.la Upgrades
• Replacing Lain.la Free Hosting with Actual Free Hosting

February 2025:

• Status of All Projects

December 2024:

• Lain.la 4.0.

November 2024:

• Thoughts on Corporate IT and Business

September 2024:

• Updates on the Proxmox Conversion

May 2024:

• The Townhouse Garage Datacenter / Lain.la v3.0

March 2024:

• Coming Soon: The Townhouse Garage Datacenter!

December 2023:

• 12/18/2023 - Incident Post-Mortem Analysis
• December 2023 Updates and Metrics

October 2023:

• The Branding of Lain.la

September 2023:

• The Core Router Replacement

August 2023:

• An Informal Status Update​

July 2023:

• Discussing Moderation of Terrorist Content on Pomf
• July 2023 Updates and Metrics

April 2023:

• Doing Donations Without Doxing Yourself to Others
• Thoughts on Project Management for IT

March 2023:

• March 2023 Updates and Metrics
• Hosting Stuff From Home (Safely)

February 2023:

• The Redundant LAN Project

January 2023:

• The DIY UPS Project - Power Outages? Not a problem!

December 2022:

• Caching LVM for Pomf
• Pomf Now Uses Cache Slicing!

November 2022:

• November Updates and Metrics
• Rant: EC-Council - Beware the False Prophets of Security

October 2022:

• October Updates and Metrics
• 10/22/2022 4:00am - Incident Post-Mortem Analysis
• 10/13/2022 7:30am - Incident Post-Mortem Analysis
• Storage. Storage Storage Storage.

August 2022:

• August Updates and Metrics
• The Joys of NAT, IP Masquerading, Default Routes, and More
• 8/3/2022 12:00am - Incident Post-Mortem Analysis

July 2022:

• I Missed an Article for June!
• The Indonesian Porn Incident, Round 2

May 2022:

• The Indonesian Porn Incident
• Why I Picked "7666" as an Alias
• May Updates and Metrics

April 2022:

• Lain.la v2.3 Network Diagram Updated!
• Lain.la v2.1 - Overview and Next Steps
• 4/10/22 2:00pm - Incident Post-Mortem Analysis
• The Human Element of Infrastructure and Reliability Engineering

March 2022:

• My Final Review of BuyVM
• How I Fight CSAM on Pomf
• March Updates and Metrics

January 2022:

• The IWF *Still* Does Not Work With Non-Corporate Entities

December 2021:

• The Fall of Ramnode as a Reasonable Provider
• I am now an Electronic Service Provider for the NCMEC
• The Grand "Why Is Pomf Slow For Me" FAQ

November 2021:

• 11/29/2021 12:51pm - Incident Post-Mortem Analysis
• I bought an UptimeRobot Pro Account
• Serinus Canaria
• Proprietary Software: Why?

October 2021:

• October Updates and Metrics

September 2021:

• OVH - How NOT to do Business

August 2021:

• The Pomf Reddit Crisis - A Discussion on Caching, Bandwidth, and Load Balancing
• Lain.La V2 - Glamor shots
• Lain.La V2 - Advanced Inbound and Outbound Routing

July 2021:

• Lain.La V2 - Network Explanation
• Lain.La V2 - The Network Overview
• Let's talk about Lain.La v1

 

Tiny note: Sometimes I retire articles from this page. As I grow, some things become irrelevant or I re-evaluate its quality. So if something goes poof: well there you go.