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I’m back and I’ve dumped Wordpress for Hugo

Wow, it certainly has been a long time since I’ve updated this site and so much has changed. First things first. The easiest path isn’t always the best approach over time it rarely is. In this case, I went with WordPress many years ago as it seemed to be the easiest way to get a site up and running. But for smaller sites like this, that is akin to using an excavator to plant a seedling.

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New Site Launched - GeekLingo

Just a short note that I’ve moved most of my tech content to my tech blog site called GeekLingo (geeklingo.net).

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Impact of Rack Power Consumption with new Haswell ESXi Server

One of the concerns I had with moving away from a microserver to a full Haswell desktop build for ESXi was a jump in power consumption. With around 4 days of data collected since the new system was installed, I thought that I would do a quick comparison for this month. The graph is a daily consumption of my entire server rack, the aim was to see the overall impact of the new box.

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