My two ISPs don't know about each other, and my router makes that fine
… It fixed most of my problems. For example, during my primary ISP outage, remote access still worked, and all homelab services remained reachable. …
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You aren't alone — Xbox's servers are down, and players can't access physical or digital games
… This is the second major outage this week; Xbox engineers say they're actively working to mitigate it. According to reports across social media , Reddit , and Xbox's official Status Page , Microsoft's Xbox Live service is down right now. …
Anthropic's Claude is down... again
… While March 2026 has been an incredibly successful month for Anthropic in terms of feature launches and popularity, it's also been a rough month for the tool, with multiple outages and service interruptions that have frustrated users. …
Why I ditched Cloudflare Tunnels for Tailscale and Caddy on my homelab
… Also, I haven’t experienced any outages since my setup doesn’t depend on third-party services. …
Most smart home failures start with DNS, and nobody notices until everything breaks
… Consumer Routers Often Make DNS a Single Point of Failure One Small Service Can Affect an Entire Smart Home Most home networks rely on the default ISP router to provide DNS forwarding services. …
This old Galaxy phone became my third WAN port, and it actually works
… Anything that relies on a direct inbound port forward or a fixed public IP would break. In my case, I didn’t have anything exposed that way; every public-facing service already routes through Pangolin. …
I let Claude Code Routines babysit my home lab while I slept, and it caught what my monitoring missed
… Start with read-only reviews of sanitized config files, then treat any suggested fixes as proposals to be approved manually. The point is to catch drift and weak spots before they become outages, not to hand your home lab a robot with root access and a flashlight. …
I stopped blaming my ISP for bad Wi-Fi as the real culprit was right in front of me
… However, the ‘Evil ISP’ mindset actually stopped me from fixing the real problem. After all, it’s easier to complain about a company than it is to look at your own hardware and home layout. I was so focused on the service coming into the house that I ignored how that service was being distributed. …
6 Docker containers I always use on any new home lab workstation
… Instead of waiting for a container to crash and finding out hours later when a service refuses to load, Uptime Kuma ensures I am the first to know about an outage. …
Your home lab probably falls apart for the wrong reason, and these tools fix it
… If you’re only checking whether a service is up, you’ll catch outages, but you won’t learn much about the problems building underneath them. …