And then the time arrived to put it out there: I’ve started my own company. It has been a dream for a very long time, but I never really came around to actually do it. Being in Denmark has its benefits and starting a company is one of them. Denmark is extremely good in supporting startups in many different ways. Thank you so much for that ;-). After reading a couple of articles about being a startup in Denmark I finally pushed myself to actually make my dream come true. Of course I’m still in the very beginning of the whole process, but at least the start has been set. And then to answer the obvious question: it’s a web hosting/consultancy company. The reason for starting up something like that is 2 fold: 1- I love being a system engineer and administrator. It has been a part of my life and I would not want to miss it for anything in the world. and 2- as a web hosting company my physical location is not limited in any way. I can do this from everywhere in the world, the only thing I need is a decent internet connection and I’m set. Some of you know I’ve been doing the same...
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On a cosy Sunday morning, when I was just checking my mails (as I always do before I get up). I saw a disturbing message in my inbox… My long forgotten DroboFS (4x 2TB and 1x 3TB, installed at my parent’s home attic) had sent out a mail with a critical disk error. I use this device everyday, mainly for storing my backups (TimeMachine) and storing my pictures and video’s. Together with my Asrock ION 330 it is the perfect storage solution to use Kodi (formerly known as XBMC). I myself know enough about storage and software to be able to set up my own server and ZFS pool and I did do this in the past. But: I’m amazingly happy about the fact I did go for Drobo. Why? As you just read there was a disk error. As I only have 1 disk redundancy I panicked a little, I went to my default web shop for disks, ordered a new disk (figured I could go for a 4TB model instead of the 2TB model that broke) and let it ship to my parents. The next day the disk arrived and I asked my totally non-tech-savvy father to replace the disk. He unpacked the disk, went to the...
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