Aaron Fletcher

🐦‍🔥Homelab Backup Strategy

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Overview

If your like me and you run a substantial home infrastructure, you know that backing it up is very important. How do you accomplish it however? A single HDD plugged into a NAS? A RAID array? A cloud backup service (Backblaze, Google Drive, etc.)? All of these by themselves fail to live up to the needs for a solid backup strategy. Backups to the point that you can wholly delete your infra in one location and still be just fine. To some people this level of self hosting in the home is ridiculous, costs to much or bears little fruit. In my opinion it is essential to data sovereignty, ownership and honing one’s craft.

Consulting

Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In 2018 I decided to begin offering my services to people who needed consulting services on the side of my main job. In the event you have a question regarding anything to do with technology please feel free to reach out. With extensive experience across defense, enterprise, and small business environments, I can provide strategic consulting to help organizations build resilient, secure, and scalable technology ecosystems.

🛠️ Specialized Expertise

☁️ Cloud Architecture & Engineering

Design and implement scalable, secure, and automated infrastructure across Azure, AWS, Google Cloud or even one of the smaller providers. I bring deep expertise in aligning enterprise cloud strategies with hands-on engineering execution. Supporting everything from greenfield deployments to complex cloud migrations.

Donations

Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I believe in giving back to the community (specifically the open source/free software one) and supporting causes that make a positive impact. Here are some of the organizations I regularly donate to.

🎗️ Humanitarian & Health

I really need to find an organization that I want to donate to. It is hard to find one in this area as alot of them have been proven to be wastes of the money they are supposed to steward.

Referral Links

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I will only recommend products and services that I have used and trust. If you’re looking for reliable infrastructure, cloud, development or simlpy shopping links here are my referral links. Using them would defray some of my costs and help support my family and work. Any use is greatly appreciated!

🚀 Infrastructure & Cloud

Linode / Akamai - Get $100 free credit.
Azure - Enjoy 20+ popular services free for 12 months, more than 65+ services free always, and $200 credit to use in your first 30 days.
Hivelocity - The best bare metal cloud I’ve used.

🔒 Security & Privacy

Bitwarden - My preferred open-source password manager.
Cloudflare - Essential for DNS, CDN, and security. Especially if you’re self hosting your infrastructure.
Proton - Essential for privacy of email, calendar, office suite and VPN.

🛠️ Productivity & Tools

Tailscale - The easiest way to build a secure network between your devices.

Note: Some of the links on this page are referral links, meaning I may earn a small commission or credit if you sign up using them, at no extra cost to you.