Posted on 2020-12-28 in Hardware
I run TrueNAS for network-attached storage. There are a number of sources for hardware recommendations: the offical guide, the community guide and the quick guide, among others. In addition, iXsystems makes its own line of TrueNAS Mini systems (see below). I modelled my own build after the TrueNAS Mini X …
Posted on 2020-07-23 in Hardware
I run pfSense as a home firewall/router. When looking for hardware to run it on, I came across a number of frequently recommended devices. I have listed these recommendations along with headline specifications below. Netgate strongly recommends Intel NICs (see "Network Card Selection") and I still read of people …
Posted on 2020-06-29 in Providers
I require a virtual private server (VPS) provider to host this website along with other private cloud services. From prior experience, my use case requires a minimum of 2GB of RAM and approximately 20GB of storage but is otherwise not CPU-intensive (i.e. 1 vCore would be sufficient). To be …
Posted on 2018-07-01 in Providers
There are many choices for internet service providers (ISP) in Vancouver. Searching for Vancouver ISP recommendations on Reddit yields a number of recommendations for Novus and Lightspeed, among many others.
Lightspeed's website provides the following helpful table:
Note that the table maxes out at 25.0 Mbps for 4K streaming …