Arbitrary thoughts, mostly on computery stuff. See Projects for more longform howtos.

HAProxy

New reverse proxy

2 minute read

I’ve finally gotten around to doing something about my old main reverse proxy in the home lab. Don’t get me wrong: It’s been working fine, but in the years t...

Server Monitoring with Grafana

less than 1 minute read

I’ve set up a self-hosted Grafana instance complete with metrics storage using Mimir, central log storage with Loki, and remote sending of data from my serve...

Messing With the Badguys

3 minute read

Scrolling through my HAProxy logs, I got a bit miffed at the amount of bot traffic I saw attempting to access nonexistent paths obviously looking for weaknes...

Serving static web pages from HAProxy

1 minute read

I recently had to prove ownership of a web domain at work. The suggested process was easy enough: Present a web page with your company name, and a way to sen...