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2026-07-15proxmoxcephdellidracraidmonitoringpost-mortem

The Server That Died in Silence

Here is an uncomfortable question for anyone running a homelab: if one of your servers died right now, how long would it take you to find out?

Disaster Recovery From a Mobile Hotspot

The power went out. When it came back, the Ceph quorum was broken, a monitor was crashing on every start, and SSH had reverted to port 22. Here's how I recovered the entire homelab 100% remotely — without touching a single cable.