Suite DespairNeat infrastructure for the home: considered, tidy, and recoverable systems for small spaces.https://www.suitedespair.com/Setting Up a NixOS Oracle Cloud Instance as a Small Public Edge Hosthttps://www.suitedespair.com/guides/2026-05-nixos-oracle-cloud-public-edge/https://www.suitedespair.com/guides/2026-05-nixos-oracle-cloud-public-edge/Use a small Oracle Cloud instance as a narrow public edge for a homelab: Oracle Linux 9 for bootstrap, NixOS for the long-term host, and a boring SSH-first baseline.Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTUsing Pangolin for CGNAT Homelab Access on a NixOS Public Edge Hosthttps://www.suitedespair.com/guides/2026-05-pangolin-cgnat-homelab-access/https://www.suitedespair.com/guides/2026-05-pangolin-cgnat-homelab-access/Use the NixOS public edge host from A9 as a Pangolin control point for a CGNAT homelab: one public edge, one outbound home-side site, one browser-facing app, and one private admin path.Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTManaging Homelab Secrets with NixOS and agenixhttps://www.suitedespair.com/guides/2026-05-managing-homelab-secrets-nixos-agenix/https://www.suitedespair.com/guides/2026-05-managing-homelab-secrets-nixos-agenix/A practical follow-up to the base NixOS host and the Podman service guide: why cleartext secrets do not belong in Nix files, how agenix keeps encrypted .age files in the repo, and how to wire one service safely.Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTMinimal Homelab Monitoring with Monit, Simple Scripts, and Pushover Alertshttps://www.suitedespair.com/guides/2026-05-minimal-monit-pushover-monitoring/https://www.suitedespair.com/guides/2026-05-minimal-monit-pushover-monitoring/Use Monit on a small homelab to watch outcomes, keep the shell glue short, and avoid building a monitoring stack before you need one.Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTAdding a Homelab Service Declaratively with NixOS and Podmanhttps://www.suitedespair.com/guides/2026-05-declarative-nixos-podman-service/https://www.suitedespair.com/guides/2026-05-declarative-nixos-podman-service/A practical follow-up to the base NixOS host guide and companion repo: one Linkding container, one deliberate state path, one env file, systemd-backed startup, and a clear backup boundary.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhy I Built My NAS Around an ODROID H4 Ultrahttps://www.suitedespair.com/guides/2026-05-odroid-h4-ultra-nas/https://www.suitedespair.com/guides/2026-05-odroid-h4-ultra-nas/The hardware reasoning behind moving from a CWWK and Jonsbo NAS build to a smaller ODROID H4 Ultra system for a lower-power, 10-inch rack-friendly homelab NAS.Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTBuilding a Minimal NixOS Homelab Hosthttps://www.suitedespair.com/guides/2026-05-minimal-nixos-homelab-host/https://www.suitedespair.com/guides/2026-05-minimal-nixos-homelab-host/A minimal NixOS host baseline: one flake, one SSH-first server, explicit firewall and fail2ban defaults, and enough validation to know it can rebuild itself.Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe Boring Offsite Backup Boxhttps://www.suitedespair.com/guides/2026-05-boring-offsite-backup-box/https://www.suitedespair.com/guides/2026-05-boring-offsite-backup-box/How I built a narrow Raspberry Pi ZFS receive target for selected homelab backups, with replaceable boot media, a separate NVMe data disk, and Tailscale access.Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT3-2-1 Backup for a Small Homelab Without Backing Up the Whole NAS Offsitehttps://www.suitedespair.com/guides/2026-05-3-2-1-backup-strategy/https://www.suitedespair.com/guides/2026-05-3-2-1-backup-strategy/How I reduced my homelab offsite backup scope, kept cloud storage for the data that actually mattered, and used ZFS, a Pi replica, and Backrest with Backblaze B2 for different failure modes.Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT