Field notes

Small notes on servers, networks and the occasional trip.

Moving a home lab to a single small VM

Two cores and two gigabytes are enough for a surprising amount of work, as long as every service is honest about how much memory it needs.

Notes on BBR and long-distance links

Switching the congestion control on a server with users far away made the biggest difference for large downloads; small pages barely changed.

A quiet weekend in Moravia

Vineyards, a slow train and no laptop. Recommended.