Your Guide To Keeping WordPress Secure

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I have been running WordPress in one form or another since 2003, which is hard to believe its 20+ years. Back then I was running a web hosting company. Since then I have hosted it for thousands of customers, I have stood on stage in front of a few thousand people and broken in to … Read more

My HomeLab – Enterprise Hardware Running Household Workloads

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Compute at home, home lab, what ever you wish to call it. I have always had something that allows me to tinker and learn. It has changed from time to time but the crux of my needs are, its been more reliability focus. In this post I want to talk about my computing platform at … Read more

Integrating SigEnergy SigenStor Into Home Assistant Using Modbus

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4 years ago I installed a SMA 6.0kW inverter (7.5kw of panels) and it’s been a reliable system to date, but with the installation of a whole house Fujitsu HVAC system (you can read about it here) and spurred on by the Australian Government’s Cheaper Home Batteries Program I decided to upgrade my solar PV … Read more

Installing & Integrating Clipsal Wiser Smoke Alarms In To Home Assistant & Amazon Alexa

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Recently I installed a 40kw battery and as a result of doing this and complying with Australian Standards, I needed to install an additional smoke alarm. Given the need to add a new alarm and my drive for consistency throughout my house I was on the hunt for smoke alarms that can integrate in to … Read more

Part 2 – Building A Multi-Subscription Azure Savings & Score Card Report – Visualisation and Email

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Have you read Part 1 of this multi part post on creating a Multi-Subscription Azure Savings & Score Card Report? If not you can bring yourself up to speed here But to recap. Cost, it’s something that a lot of organisations struggle with when operating in the cloud. I have authored many posts on mechanisms … Read more

Part 1 – Building A Multi-Subscription Azure Savings & Score Card Report – Data Collection & Insights

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Cost, it’s something that a lot of organisations struggle with when operating in the cloud. I have authored many posts on mechanisms you can take to reduce your costs, and they broadly apply across all the hyperscalers, but as they say, sunlight is the best disinfectant. The sunlight I am referring to is cost visibility. … Read more

Downgrading From Azure Ultra Disks & Premium SSD V2 to Premium SSD/Standard SSD/Standard HDD

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Storage can be one of those big rocks in terms of cost in the cloud, regardless of which public cloud you choose. By using platforms such as Azure Monitor you can validate actual I/O usage versus procured performance. So why this post? I am currently working with an organisation driving efficiency in to their tech … Read more

Ditch the Remote: Aesthetically clean control for Ventair SkyFan DC with Clipsal, Sonoff, MQTT, Tasmota Home Assistant & TUYA

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Do you like the trend of remotes for appliances? I don’t. They often look our of place, require you to drill tiny holes in walls for mounts and even still, they can go missing. Let alone, they need batteries and you never can find them when you need them. But modern devices do more than … Read more