Welcome Back (For Real This Time)
March 8, 2026After fifteen years, multiple CMS platforms, a few 502 errors, and at least one article that just said "Meow" -- DizyDiz is back. Rebuilt from scratch as a clean static site, self-hosted on bare metal in a home lab.
The original 2011 content has been recovered from the Wayback Machine. Articles about building a 48TB FreeNAS box, Comcast data caps, and custom workstations -- all preserved. The site has come full circle: from a homelab blog, to a Joomla placeholder, to WordPress silence, and now back to what it always should have been.
What's Here
The Archive
Recovered articles from 2011 -- the original DizyDiz tech blog. FreeNAS builds, Comcast rants, and homelab adventures preserved from the Wayback Machine.
View ArchiveThe Lab
A look inside the homelab: Dell PowerEdge servers, 6 GPUs running local AI, Docker containers, and more -- all self-hosted with no cloud dependencies.
See InfrastructureSite History
From its 2011 origins as a Joomla tech blog to the 2017 "Meow" era and the 2024 WordPress experiment -- trace the full timeline.
View TimelineDrive Recovery Service
Lost data? Our software-based recovery service handles ~90% of data loss cases -- corrupted drives, accidental deletion, bad sectors -- faster and cheaper than cleanroom labs.
Latest from the Archive
48TB FreeNAS Build
The Norco RPC-4224 project -- 24 drive bays, ZFS, and the belief that there's no such thing as too much space.
ReadComcast's 250GB Data Cap
A 2011 breakdown of why Comcast's data cap made zero mathematical sense. (Still relevant fifteen years later.)
ReadMeow
The legendary second article ever published on DizyDiz. It outperformed "Welcome Back" by 10 hits. A masterpiece.
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