Blog - Justin Merrill, MBA, BS .:|:. Platform Engineer

XCP-ng 8.2 LTS and 8.3 for Dell PowerEdge – Maintaining Dell System Update (DSU) for Linux Red Hat Enterprise 7.x (and Variants) in 2025 and Beyond

#Status: Work In Progress – #TODO: clean up and add better formatting; Add a Bash script that will handle all

Over the last few years, as I’ve continued to test various Hypervisors in my home lab, I have noticed that

A few years ago, I bought a nearly decade old Mac Mini (Late 2014) for around $150. I wanted to

It’s been awhile! I recently started very much appreciating how much amazing info is shared online from blogs posts, just

I wanted to do find an optimal and “universal” Nginx Reverse-Proxy to Apache web server configuration For PHP7 web applications

While using an older VM with CentOS7 installed, I attempted to remove the default MySQL v5.5(ish) installation and replace it

Migrate Linux Servers Are you looking for ways to Migrate Linux Servers between multiple installations? I’ve experimented with various Linux

Security Disclaimer: There is a PROFOUND argument AGAINST enabling the root user among the extremely seasoned Linux and Ubuntu communities.

I’m writing this guide to help those out there that just want to “get it done” rather than learn every

While I was experimenting with a client solution, I had a lot of considerations to take in account for a