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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. ...

Context This project has been a culmination of a few projects coalescing together at the same time: I’ve been wanting to play with Cloud-Init in a local environment for a little while now, and I’ve been finding myself spinning up more and more VMs to test some networking automation. After a couple of nights of tweaking, I’ve found myself feeling really enjoying the amount of time I saved compared to manually creating VMs, and I wanted to summarize up my thoughts here. ...

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. ...

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. ...