Here’s the situation. You installed this cool sprinkler controller. You used a DHCP reservation so it’s always at the same ip address. Now you can always access it – as long as you’re connected to your home network. What if you’re in Hawaii? You’re sitting on the beach, sipping a nice drink from a coconut,…

I recently installed an Open Sprinkler PI system in my house. This is a great system from Ray’s Hobby which has its own web server. You can access it from a web browser or with an iPhone app which talks to the same server. But you need to access the web server using an ip…

In Home Server Bound I described my decisions in moving from a dedicated server to a home server, based on OSX Lion Server. Here I describe all the steps I took to make this a reality.

The marrin.com site (and friends) is currently hosted at ESecureData. We have a dedicated server box with an Atom processor, up in Vancouver. It’s a great little server and has been working for several years. But it’s not without its quirks, sometimes going down for no apparent reason. And about a year ago I had…