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The Best M.2 SSD for PS5 2022

Ed Brandon  -  April 24, 2022

The 825GB internal SSD in the PS5 can only hold a handful of installed games at a time. Thankfully Sony included a M.2 SSD expansion slot in the PS5 to allow additional storage for PS5 games to be installed. However there a few requirements in choosing the best M.2 SSD for PS5. PCI-Express Gen4x4 supported...

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Monitor your UPS with NUT and Grafana

Ed Brandon  -  April 7, 2022

If you are using NUT (Network UPS Tools) you can monitor your UPS current and historical usage with Grafana. There are several Grafana dashboards available for NUT however I decided to settle on Unraid NUT UPS Dashboard TR. Now don’t worry if you are not running Unraid, neither am I and I was able to...

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How to show real IP of clients in Traefik access.log in Docker

Ed Brandon  -  March 31, 2022

If you are running Traefik in Docker and you are monitoring incoming traffic you will see all incoming connections are using IP addresses from the Docker ingress network. If you need the real IP of clients in Traefik connecting to your Traefik reverse proxy running in a Docker Swarm environment you will need to publish...

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How to rotate the Traefik access.log in Docker Swarm

Ed Brandon  -  March 31, 2022

I enabled Traefik access logs to use in Grafana for a Traefik to Loki dashboard. I quickly found out Traefik access logs grow quickly and I would need to rotate the Traefik access.log in Docker Swarm. Since I have Traefik running in a container in Docker Swarm we will have to tell the logrotate daemon...

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Monitor your Home Network easily with Uptime-Kuma

Ed Brandon  -  March 31, 2022

Uptime-Kuma – An easy way to monitor your home network or lab Since I’ve setup my Docker Swarm cluster and have added many smart home devices to my network there was always something that maybe was not working as it should. I wanted a easy way to monitor your home network. I’ve used Nagios in...

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How-to Add 6 HHD/SSD Drives in one 5.25 Bay

Ed Brandon  -  March 16, 2022

Need more internal storage in your desktop PC? Meet the 6 bay SATA HHD / SSD ICY Dock This 5.15 inch drive cage will allow you to add 6 HHD/SSD drives. This cage is perfect for adding a RAID array to your desktop. I’ve been using ICY Dock products for over a decade and decided...

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Horizon Forbidden West: How to get the Kratos Easter Egg Totem of War

Ed Brandon  -  March 15, 2022

In Horizon Forbidden West there are 3 War Totem collectibles that are Easter eggs for God of War. Here is how to get the Totem of War. Pick up your copy of Horizon Forbidden West here!

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