Every electronic device needs clean, reliable power. Without that, circuits can be fried, data can be lost, and devices can even catch fire. Today's power grid delivers brownouts, power surges, and blackouts fairly often in some parts of the world, so electronics can easily be destroyed at any time of

There comes a point in everyone's life when they lose data. It may or may not have happened to you yet, but I can almost promise that your time will eventually come. My most significant incident was when my Microsoft Surface Pro went to update and could not be turned

Let's face it: wired internet connections are better than Wi-Fi. You gain faster download and upload speeds, increased sequential throughput, decreased packet loss, decreased ping, and immunity from dropped signals. However, this is an all-or-nothing battle. The second you can't plug in a device with an ethernet cable, all of

Even though I own a Framework Laptop with swappable ports, I carry the most oversized dongle to adapt USB-C to every possible port in my backpack. Need ethernet? No problem. SD card reader? Easy. Want DP, HDMI, and VGA all at once? Of course! Having all these adapters is great

For some reason, I have horrendous luck when it comes to Wi-Fi not working. Every. Single. Time. No matter the time of day or day of the year, it's always when I open my laptop, the Wi-Fi stops working. Chances are, it is just our router trying to update in

It's been over five years since I purchased my 5 TB rugged portable HDD from LaCie, and at first, I didn't understand the hype. I have had other external drives from WD, Samsung, and even some off-brand competitors and haven't had a single drive die on me, until they all

When setting up a new Portainer instance, the age-old saying starts to drift back into my mind: "Well, it works on my machine..." As I set up my networks inside Portainer and began starting up other containers, I thought I was home-free until I ran into a problem. How do

When you are the designated CTO of your family, many different responsibilities fall on your shoulders. Anything from printer help to connecting devices to Wi-Fi becomes your domain of expertise. One of the most challenging tasks in this job is to ensure that all the devices that you watch over

As the old saying goes, a proper backup solution follows the 3-2-1 principle—3 copies of your data on 2 different storage mediums, with one being off-site. Many people like to keep a second copy of their essential data on-site, usually on a NAS in their home or on removable

With the recent news of LastPass's data breach and hack, many people who have not been using a password manager are now frightened. Many consumers are hearing news story after story about this information being taken by hackers, yet need to learn more about what actually happened. This can make

Whether you're just starting as a newbie trying to create a website online, a freshly graduated college student creating a resume website, or an up-and-coming streamer trying to make a name for yourself, everyone needs a website. Choosing where to host – heck, even what to host on your website can

PagerDuty (PD) is an alerting and monitoring service used by many of the largest companies in the world from Carnival Cruise lines to Cloudflare and Slack. PD connects to your favorite service providers (AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), GCP, Azure) or any other service that can invoke a webhook given

With the host of various IaaS service providers across the internet offering services varying from website hosting to managed databases to load balancers to direct access to VMs, it is hard to find the most performant, cheapest, and most reliable options. When push comes to shove, many larger companies go

As discussed in a Cloudflare Blog post, one of the most annoying and costly parts of cloud storage and cloud computing is the storage egress costs. AWS charges a crazy $0.09 per GB of data that leaves their data centers to the public internet. I would be charged $9

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is behind much of the internet today. As Amazon’s most profitable division, AWS has grown to over 35 data centers grouped into multiple regions across the globe (US-East-1 in Ashburn, VA, for example). Each data center region is structured into at least three availability zones