As much as I enjoy using AWS, to use it how I would like to use it is just too expensive. Because of this, I've hosted the large majority of my cloud infrastructure on DigitalOcean. This boils down to two reasons — it's a lot easier to use than AWS, and the pricing is predictable.
Of all the systems I maintain in my homelab, the one I generally look at the least is my NAS. I'm not sure if that would come as a surprise to anyone, but it's become one of my most trusted “set it and forget it” systems.
I've been thinking about obtaining a more professional domain name for some time now, but didn't actually pull the trigger on it until last week. I ended up purchasing two domains, which may seem silly, but there is some logic behind it.
I had originally intended to write this post about flowchart topology, but the more I wrote, the more I found myself writing about knowledge management, so I'm just going to run with it.