That’s right, the Q6600. An Intel chip from 10 years ago has been serving my NAS systems for the past 6 years, prior to that it was my gaming chip and now it has finally been decommissioned for the new competitor on the block; a Ryzen R5 1400. Since setting up my Freenas machine 6 years ago (8.0.2 anyone?) serving…
Fun with British ISP’s
It’s been some time since my last update, but in that time I’ve been busy “fixing” issues with my home internet. Basically, our CAB (The green box which links homes to the ISP backbone and then the internet) is oversubscribed, meaning there are more people on the CAB then there realistically should be and everyone’s speeds are dropped to compensate.…
Telegraf to Grafana – Sorted!
I’ve always been interested in the theory behind monitoring my small lab setup. Knowing how much traffic is being served by my NAS, how much space I’ve left on the RAID array or even what processes have the most CPU time. So getting into it, Grafana was my first port of call. We use it extensively at work for keeping…
Teamspeak – Restricting Uploads for Virtual Servers
Now for something a little more technical. This is a walkthrough on setting Template permissions to restrict the allowed uploads per virtual server instance. Pre-req Teamspeak Server : Offline MySQL DB Editor Buddy to check your work. Server Settings The following SQL query will update all servers to only allow 1GB uploads, This is more than enough for pictures /…