iDRAC Fan Control

Concept Managing server fan speed is crucial for maintaining an optimal balance between cooling efficiency and noise levels, especially in environments where temperature control and acoustics are important. Dell servers, like many other enterprise-grade hardware, come equipped with Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) capabilities. With the help of ipmi-tools, we can access and control various hardware components of the server, including fan speed, remotely or locally, without needing direct access to the operating system. ...

September 25, 2024 · 3 min · 625 words · Nate

DDNS, ddclient and Cloudflare

Context DDNS allows for the dynamic update of DNS entries and attributes - what a fitting name. This can be an extremely valuable resource for professionals and homelabbers who need to deal with dynamically assigned IP addresses in keeping things connected. I personally use Cloudflare as a DNS proxy for my various domains, which used to be managed by Google Domains until they sold that business to Squarespace; I’ve since been moving everything to Porkbun. ...

February 3, 2024 · 3 min · 572 words · Nate

Moving to Hugo

Over the last few months, I have been playing around with moving my website from Wordpress where it has lived in one form or another since around 2004. When I first installed it, I believe I was really just looking for some software to run on my newly hacked together LAMP server; I never imagined I would use it for so long. ...

January 1, 2024 · 2 min · 268 words · Nate