Mistakes

The homelab is intended to be a place to make mistakes, and this is good because I make my fair share number of them. Today’s mistakes involved inconsistant databases, ChatGPT, and (thankfully!) usefull backups to save the day! I’ll walk you through the incident the same way I experienced it. It began as I was working to deploy a new service (yes, ANOTHER one), this time a bookmarking app called Karakeep. It has OIDC suport, so I went to Authentik to setup the connection. I was intially met with the normal login screen, but after I typed in my username and password I was then met with a generic “Server Error” message. “That’s odd” I muttered as I tried logging in through a private window and with a different account. All three attemts resulting in the same “Server Error” message. ...

I have a modest homelab, only a few hundred gigabytes of content that doesn’t change often. Most of the content is not really that important, but I back it up anyways because, hey, storage costs are pretty low. I use BackBlaze B2, which is about $6/TB, which I am easily under. So you’ll image my surprise when my February bill came from BackBlaze, and it was for $103.91. Yup, I went from spending about $2.50, to over one hundred dollars in about a month. How? ...