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H.W. Crestwood

Senior Editor

Blog editor and full-stack specialist with over 15 years of experience in software development and systems administration. Driven by a strong interest in homelab and self-hosted infrastructure, he approaches technology from a practical, experiment-driven perspective.

A bright editorial server-memory scene showing installed DIMMs and a subtle emphasis on data integrity and correction.

Aug 15, 2026H.W. Crestwood

ECC RAM in Homelabs: When It Matters and When It Doesn’t

A bright editorial home-network scene showing an older router repurposed as a Wi-Fi access point with a subtle secondary wireless bridge path.

Aug 14, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Bridge Mode vs. AP Mode: How I Use Old Routers as Access Points

A bright editorial server-hardware scene centered on premium power supplies and low-load efficiency behavior.

Aug 13, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Server PSU Efficiency Ratings: Titanium vs Platinum at Low Percentage Loads

Two late-1990s graphics cards linked together inside an open gaming PC beside a CRT setup.

Aug 12, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Why SLI (Scan-Line Interleave) Made Dual GPUs the Ultimate Flex

A bright editorial Mac workspace showing an abstract Terminal environment connected to files, apps, clipboard, and command-line fluency.

Aug 12, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Top 10 Terminal Commands Every macOS Power User Should Know

A dark editorial homelab scene showing one host branching into Docker, LXC, and virtual-machine runtime paths.

Aug 12, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Docker vs LXC vs Virtual Machines: What Belongs Where in a Homelab?

A bright editorial comparison between three different styles of Docker web UI: full control platform, template launcher, and compose stack manager.

Aug 12, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Portainer vs Yacht vs Dockge: Choosing a Web UI for Docker Containers

A dark editorial homelab scene showing a compact server beside a refined monitoring display with thermal and fan activity cues.

Aug 12, 2026H.W. Crestwood

How to Monitor Proxmox Host Temperatures and Fan Speeds from the Dashboard

A bright editorial illustration showing Docker containers operating inside bounded CPU and memory resource lanes.

Aug 11, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Resource Limits in Docker: Restricting CPU and RAM Usage Per Container

A late-1990s motherboard showing a brown AGP slot beside several white PCI slots as a graphics card hovers above them.

Aug 11, 2026H.W. Crestwood

AGP vs. PCI: The Graphics Slot War of the Late 90s