Louie Ladiona

My Home Lab Setup

Mon, 04 May 2026 16:59:06 +0800

WIP might drift to talos OS

Building my own homelab as I have a spare PC, it’s been 6 years my pc have an upgrade and instead selling my old pc, I try to build homelab there are things are very repititive and let’s try to eliminate that. seem’s this homelab will try to fix those things. also this will open and learn other things.

Hardware

PC sepcs:

Cpu: Ryzen 7 3700x
Gpu: Quadro P400
PSU: 550 watts Cpu Coolermaster
Ram: 8 + 4 = 12gb RAM total memory
Mobo: Gigabyte 520I AC
SSD: SkHynix 256Gb
HDD: 1tb drive

Will most of it are my old pc parts, some of the parts I already sold, also I left at home. I just buy a Gpu just to intiate Boot and Quardo p400 have a dedicated hardware video encoding engine, commonly known as NVENC. This will support NAS media. A Ryzen 7 3700x will be good handling multithreading task.

About me

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:42:24 -0700

I am Louie Ladiona, a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with a strong focus on cloud computing and distributed systems. I build practical tools to solve real-world operational challenges, with an emphasis on reliability, scalability, and automation. I actively explore and work with open-source technologies, evaluating and customizing them to fit specific system.

Hobbies

Outdoor activities such as running, hiking, and riding a bike.
Playing video games (RPGs, roguelikes, card games, soulslike, fps)
I enjoy coffee as a way to unwind especially on weekend nights, when I like to relax with a cup while exploring new ideas and doing research.
I enjoy walking as a therapeutic routine, it helps me clear my mind, reflect, and explore new ideas and questions.

Resume

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Personal Page with Hugo

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:20:51 -0700

Creating my personal site (the one you’re reading right now). I used a static site generator called Hugo. I picked it mainly because I’m already a bit familiar with Go, but the nice thing is you don’t actually need to know Go at all to use it. It’s simple, fast, and gets out of your way. In this post, I just want to walk through how I got started and how I began building my own documentation space.