Moving the home lab to a single low-power box
Consolidation notes: idle draw, thermals, and why one service stayed on its own hardware.
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A backup is only real once you've restored it
A restore rehearsal, timed end to end, with the three checks I added afterwards.
Cheap UPS, honest runtime
Real runtime under load and a clean automated shutdown.
Boring is a feature
Why I stopped running clever things on the gateway and moved them somewhere replaceable.