I’ve been running my HTTP server logs though a tool called goaccess for a while, this tool generates a bunch of charts showing traffic volume and how it breaks down by the different hostnames/services that NGINX proxies for.

I also have the Wordpress JetPack stats enabled on my blog (which is behind the nginx reverse proxy) and as well as generating per post it also shows data on which […]

#geoip #logging #mastodon #nginx

Ben Hardill @hardillb@blog.hardill.me.uk

· 7mo ago

Mounting Qemu disk images with LVM volumes https://blog.hardill.me.uk/2026/03/09/mounting-qemu-disk-images-with-lvm-volumes/

I recently had a VM that failed to boot after applying some updates. I didn’t really have time to work out how to fix it so I created a new VM but there were some files in the VM that I really wanted to keep.So before I deleted the old VM I wanted to work out how to mount the disk image and recover them. I search and found some instructions that worked but because the VM had used LVM for the […]

#Linux

Ben Hardill @hardillb@blog.hardill.me.uk

· 7mo ago

Finally Fibre https://blog.hardill.me.uk/2026/03/07/finally-fibre/

For those of you who have been following along on Mastodon for a while you may have noticed the saga of getting FTTP installed at home. What follows is the full story in detail, this is mainly a Cathartic out poring to help me get some closure.

A long time ago…

Work to rollout FTTP in my town started before the 2020 Pandemic lockdown, mainly because one of the Altnets had targeted the more […]

#FTTP

Ben Hardill @hardillb@blog.hardill.me.uk

· 7mo ago

Running a self hosted Atuin Server in Kubernetes without Postgresql https://blog.hardill.me.uk/2026/02/14/running-a-self-hosted-atuin-server-in-kubernetes-without-postgresql/

Shell history is a service offered by the shell, usually accessed by pressing the up arrow to retrieve the last executed command (and subsequent presses scrolling further back. You can also search history using ctrl-r (at least with bash). And finally the history command lists all commands made by that users up to the limit configured with the HISTSIZE or HISTFILESIZE (man page suggest default […]

#Bash #kubernetes #Linux

Ben Hardill @hardillb@blog.hardill.me.uk

· 2mo ago

Layer 2 network access at a distance https://blog.hardill.me.uk/2026/07/19/layer-2-network-access-at-a-distance/

For a recent project I needed to provision a new PLC on a dedicated network.

The provisioning process requires a Windows machine running software from the manufacturer and the initial discovery requires it to be on the same layer 2 segment.

As a rule I don’t normally run Windows anywhere (OK, I do have a dedicated Windows box to run Zwift) and definitely not one I wanted to run the vendor […]

#Linux #networking #raspberryPi

Ben Hardill @hardillb@blog.hardill.me.uk

· 4mo ago

Raspberry Pi USB-C Gadget Mode https://blog.hardill.me.uk/2026/05/31/raspberry-pi-usb-c-gadget-mode/

I have been writing about how to configure a Raspberry Pi 4, 5 and Pi Zero to act as a USB Ethernet device for a while now. Starting with Pi Zero in 2017, then Pi 4 and finally for Pi 5 in 2023.

I’ve used Raspberry Pis configured this way for lots of different things both at home and work.

I even tried to automate creating images pre-configured to speed things up a […]

#gadget #raspberryPi #usb #usbC

Ben Hardill @hardillb@blog.hardill.me.uk

· 5mo ago

Starting a Development & Test Environment https://blog.hardill.me.uk/2026/05/11/starting-a-development-test-environment/

As part of development and testing FlowFuse I need to run a bunch of supporting services- Postgres (database)- EMQX (MQTT broker)- Valkey (Key/Value data store)- Verdaccio (NPM package registry)- Stripe simulator (Online Payment provider)The first 3 of these are all run as Docker container, the last 2 as straight binaries, but all have their own `start.sh` in their own directories so that […]

#Fedora #gnome #Linux

Ben Hardill @hardillb@blog.hardill.me.uk

· 5mo ago

Building a Snowball https://blog.hardill.me.uk/2026/05/08/building-a-snowball/

In recent posts I’ve talked about setting up an S3 server so my Dad can back up his photos from his Synology NAS to one at my house.One of the challenges is that his current collection is nearly a full 1TiB which is an awful lot of data to push (and my home connection still has a 1TiB per month quota, this is not normally a problem because I tend to use about 200-300GiB per month and half of […]

#backup #Linux #nas #s3

Ben Hardill @hardillb@blog.hardill.me.uk

· 6mo ago

Garage S3 on Kubernetes https://blog.hardill.me.uk/2026/03/24/garage-s3-on-kubernetes/

I recently upgraded the storage in my main NAS (as apposed to my all NVME mini NAS) which I use for more longer term “cold” storage. It cost me a twice as much as it would have done, if I’d bought the drives back in November when I started planning this, but that is a totally separate post/rant (2 disk mirrored storage from 2TiB to 12TiB).

There are 2 main reasons for the upgrade, first the […]

#kubernetes #s3