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 for Plex or Jellyfin, Sonarr, and Radarr
Deploy Seerr with Docker, connect Plex or Jellyfin to Sonarr and Radarr, separate requester rights from administration, and verify a recoverable request path.
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
Build useful health checks for a Plex and Arr homelab: storage mounts, imports, transcoding capacity, certificates, backups, queues, and daily reports.
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.
Back Up and Restore Jellyfin and the Media Automation Stack
Protect Jellyfin, Plex, Arr, SABnzbd, and Tdarr state with consistent encrypted backups, an explicit restore order, and an isolated recovery test.
Ubiquiti Site Magic Routing: A No-Nonsense Beginner Guide to Routes, Route Injection, and Software-Defined Wide Area Network Fabric Design
A practical Site Magic routing guide covering UniFi site-to-site VPNs, route injection, subnet overlap, firewall policy, and branch troubleshooting.
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.