June 2026
NAS vs DAS vs Mini PC: Which Storage Setup Should You Actually Buy?
A practical storage decision guide for choosing a NAS, DAS, or mini PC based on sharing, speed, apps, backup, and upkeep.
Designing ThousandEyes Visibility Across Branch, Cloud, and SaaS
ThousandEyes visibility is most useful when tests are designed around user journeys, branch paths, DNS, SaaS dependencies, cloud regions, and actionable alert thresholds.
Seerr Setup Guide: Media Requests for Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, Sonarr, and Radarr
A practical Seerr setup guide for adding a private media request layer to Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby while handing approved movies and shows to Radarr and Sonarr safely.
Cisco SD-WAN to Multicloud Fabric: A Migration Design
A phased migration from SD-WAN and native cloud networking to Cisco Multicloud Fabric should start with inventory, routing domains, security policy, pilot paths, and measurable experience.
Monitoring and Health Checks for a Plex and Arr Homelab
Monitor the outcomes that keep a media stack useful: mounted storage, free space, successful imports, playable files, healthy queues, available transcode resources, current certificates, and restorable backups. Start with one daily report and a few actionable alerts before building a large dashboard. Rights and lawful use: Monitor only systems and media workflows you administer, and […]
IoT Isolation for Homelabs: VLANs, Firewall Rules, and mDNS
A practical IoT isolation guide that keeps smart-home devices usable while protecting trusted clients, servers, and management networks.
Implementing AgenticOps Safely: Human Approval, Audit Trails, and Rollback
Agentic network operations need guardrails: approved action classes, human review, role limits, dry runs, rollback plans, and audit trails before any production change.
Backup and Disaster Recovery for Plex, Sonarr, Radarr, Tdarr, Prowlarr, and SABnzbd
A practical disaster recovery guide for backing up the important details of a Plex and Arr homelab without trying to duplicate the entire media library. Rights and lawful use: Back up Plex, Arr, SABnzbd, Prowlarr, and Tdarr configuration only for systems and media workflows you are authorized to operate. A recovery archive should preserve legitimate […]
Ubiquiti Site Magic Routing: A No-Nonsense Beginner Guide to Routes, Route Injection, and Software-Defined Wide Area Network Fabric Design
Site Magic is one of those UniFi features that feels easy until the first routing problem shows up. The tunnel says it is connected. Both sites look healthy. You can see the remote gateway. Then the actual server, printer, backup target, or management page still does not work. That is when the uncomfortable truth appears: […]
Building a Network Digital Twin Workflow
A network digital twin is useful when it models topology, intent, policy, dependencies, and change impact. Here is a practical workflow for using it safely.