The only thing I'm running above 1Gig is my modem to my ISP. Everything else is 1GigE. We don't do a lot of file transfers, our internet is 1.5GigE (So yeah, I'm technically being short changed by 500mbit, and I don't really care). We DO use bandwidth for gaming, streaming YT and Plex and what not, but beyond that...

Wait, whut? ESXi is free again? When did that happen?? ... not that I care to install it. Just idiotic business practices and such.

No. I'm still trying "Zorin" out on one of the four SSDs I have on my main rig. I have a 4-bay SSD tray that sits in a standard 5.25" bay and can easily remove the SSD with the pull of a lever (Of course, shut down, pull, insert, power up stuffs). Windows loves overwriting MBRs and such, so I want the physical isolation when running Windows. Linux is fine to keep the Windows drives in.

Seems like TUIs are becoming more and more "popular", and although I love the CLI, I prefer the CLI for commands, not things that are graphical. It takes me just as much time to move the mouse to where my eyeballs are at than have to remember where the keybinds are. For me, if I want to control a machine, I'd rather through a web UI where I can get the mouse to where it needs to be due to repetition and frequency of use. It's often faster (For me) to get where I need to be with the flick of a mouse rather than having to hit TAB 30 times. The mouse integration with VIM drives me flip'n batty.

Don't get me wrong. I can see TUIs being useful for monitoring, like htop and that. But to drive and control something as complex as ProxMox or Portainer.... I actually plan on writing a monitoring TUI and tie it into my monitoring systems so that my RPi that sits right in front of me, right between my quad monitors, and it having a 5" LCD on it, I can see immediate alerts that I may need to look at "now" like. I don't need a graphical "thing" to do monitoring, but I really don't need textual macros to navigate around and manage my commands. I'd rather just script out a bash or python or php script to do the damage I seek to do.

https://youtu.be/RuddKI_a4uc As requested. No audio, only shows the activities that happen when I change an IP on any machine in my network. As I said in the long winded description (Anyone else noticing a pattern out of me?) this is still WIP. DNS and reverse proxy configs coming up. Hopefully over the next few months but there's some IRL stuff that's also coming up that may end up distracting me.

@Brandon Lee Indirectly, yes. There's a PHP service script I wrote that runs on the IPAM machine that pokes the database directly to read a log entry and does a comparison on a time stamp. If the time stamp that it wrote to the disk differs than what is in the log table in the database, it makes the API call to Semaphore to get the ball rolling. So it's not phpIPAM itself that's making the call, but the stuff in the database itself is being looked at outside the IPAM software that determines the trigger. phpIPAM doesn't have triggers like this built in, so I went outside the software. That way if I go and upgrade the software itself (It's in a docker container) I don't need to worry about losing my code, only MAYBE having to change an API call if needed.