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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.

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Aug 8, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Untagged vs. Tagged Ports: The Trunking Concepts That Confuse Everyone

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Aug 8, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Dynamic DNS (DDNS): Accessing Your Home Network When Your ISP Changes Your IP

A dark editorial home-network scene comparing a powerline path and a coax-based MoCA path extending from one central router.

Aug 8, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Powerline Adapters vs. MoCA: Retrofitting Ethernet Over Existing Coax Cables

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Aug 8, 2026H.W. Crestwood

How to Safely Update Proxmox VE Without Breaking Running Workloads

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Aug 8, 2026H.W. Crestwood

CPU Core Allocation Myths: vCPUs vs Physical Cores vs Sockets

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Aug 8, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Memory Ballooning in Proxmox: How It Works and When It Breaks

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Aug 8, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Understanding Proxmox Storage Types: Local-ZFS, LVM-Thin, and Directory

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Aug 8, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Why MS-DOS Batch Files Made Everyone Feel Like a Hacker

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Aug 8, 2026H.W. Crestwood

The First Homelab Mistakes I Would Never Repeat

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Aug 8, 2026H.W. Crestwood

The Day I Configured Proxmox Backup Server