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A home infrastructure lab that gradually forgot it was supposed to be small.
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A simplified public view of how the main parts fit together.
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Write-ups, experiments and assorted evidence that something actually worked.
Real Failover Backup
QFiles Failover — A Simple Idea That Got Complicated Introduction to the QFiles Failover project Back in August 2026, I started working on what I thought would be a fairly straight…
ZFS Overhead Reduction
Reducing storage overhead in Encrypted ZFS Failback Today’s ZFS experiment delivered a rather satisfying result: raw encrypted failback into a copy-on-write dataset works without d…
Welcome to SohoLab — What is This?
The Soholab SohoLab is the homelab section of CONRAM.IT — a dedicated space for writing about what actually happens when you run real hardware at home emulating when a bunch of com…
Introducing Gjallarform
Gjallarform We are releasing Gjallarform — a lightweight contact form engine designed for static and low-maintenance websites like Publii. Many site owners forget that EU websites…
The origins of a HomeLab #2
The Origins of a HomeLab #2 Part 2 of a series tracing a home lab from its first NAS in 2013 to the infrastructure of today. This time: decommissioned enterprise hardware, the firs…
The Origins of a HomeLab #1
The Origins of a HomeLab #1 This is Part 1 of a series tracing a home lab from its first NAS purchase in 2013 to the rack servers, firewalls, and domain controllers of today. It st…
On the Bench
Things currently being built, rebuilt, automated or otherwise interfered with.
I love my Lenovo T480s, doing a much needed upgrade, changing Motherboard, Monitor and upgrading its WiFi.
Finishing the failover path and tightening the recovery behaviour between the storage nodes.
Rebuilding the local inference stack around the available hardware.
Expanding automation beyond Linux patching to include Portainer and Docker updates.
Finally giving CONRAM.IT a proper visual identity of its own.
Investigating and implementing an RMM solution for the Windows clients.