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Homelab recovery · August 2026
9 posts
I moved a staging environment off the cloud in one evening
A multi-tenant staging environment moved onto hardware in my house, and the ninety minutes I lost to a TLS handshake failure taught me more than the migration did.
Aug 31, 2026·Homelab recovery·7 min
Two machines answered to the same address
Ping worked from every node. The service worked from exactly one. A duplicate IP does not look like a duplicate IP, and the check that would have caught it is not the one you reach for.
Aug 27, 2026·Homelab recovery·5 min
