[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":57},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-posts":3},[4],{"id":5,"path":6,"title":7,"description":8,"date":9,"tags":10,"image":19,"body":20},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fbooting-up.md","\u002Fblog\u002Fbooting-up","Booting Up: Why I Finally Built a Proper Space for My Homelab Madness","A quick look at what this site is all about, from self hosted infrastructure and networking experiments to the random projects I build when off the clock.","2026-08-20",[11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18],"homelab","selfhosted","networking","proxmox","linux","infrastructure","opensource","sysadmin","\u002Fblog\u002Fbooting-up.webp",{"type":21,"value":22,"toc":51},"minimark",[23,28,32,35,38,42,45,48],[24,25,27],"h2",{"id":26},"welcome-to-the-site","Welcome to the site.",[29,30,31],"p",{},"If you have stumbled across this corner of the web, chances are you share the same slightly unhinged obsession with home servers, networking racks, and self hosted setups that I do.",[29,33,34],{},"I am Jamie, a 25 year old infrastructure engineer based in the UK. By day, my job revolves around keeping production systems healthy, spinning up clusters, wrestling with Kubernetes, and making sure monitoring does not wake someone up at stupid o'clock for no reason. But honestly, even after a proper shift of untangling networks and writing automation scripts, I usually end up turning around and doing the exact same thing in my own lab for fun.",[29,36,37],{},"This whole journey started years ago with spare kit sitting around, a basic file share, and a Plex setup cobbled together in an old desktop PC. Fast forward to now, and that simple curiosity has turned into a massive obsession. My home setup has become my testing ground for everything from Proxmox virtualisation and container registries to custom Go utilities and network security sweeps. If there is a way to self host it, monitor it, or script it to save future me five minutes of grief, I am going to build it.",[24,39,41],{"id":40},"so-why-put-together-a-personal-blog-now","So why put together a personal blog now?",[29,43,44],{},"Mostly because I wanted a clean, dedicated space to document the builds, the wins, and the inevitable late night outages where a dodgy configuration breaks DNS across the entire network. When you are constantly trying new bits and bobs, things break in fascinating ways, and writing down the fixes helps solidify the lesson rather than just slapping a temporary patch on it and hoping for the best.",[29,46,47],{},"Beyond server racks and Linux distributions, this site is also where I will be sharing updates on the open source tools I build, my 3D printing projects, driving adventures in the STi, and whatever else catches my attention.",[29,49,50],{},"Thanks for stopping by. Have a look around, check back for upcoming technical deep dives, and happy labbing.",{"title":52,"searchDepth":53,"depth":53,"links":54},"",2,[55,56],{"id":26,"depth":53,"text":27},{"id":40,"depth":53,"text":41},1787186830739]