Who am I?

My name is Daniel.
Born in Germany in 1981 and raised in Saxony, I moved to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern during my vocational training.
After 18 years I'm still happy to live here with my wife and my kids.

Today

I have been working in a German data center for almost 20 years, and the small 10-person company has now grown into a fairly large corporation. Even though not everything about this story is as rosy as it seems, I still really enjoy my job in the network area.
This reflects also my personal interests, as I'm reading / trying a lot in areas like network, virtual systems, container and such stuff also in my free time.
Nearly all my systems in my home lab and on external servers are Arch Linux based, and I'm experiment a lot with the Hashicorp tools.
After replacing my 13-year-old hardware, I've changed my primary server at home to Proxmox in 2025 as it now was capable of beeing a real virtualisation solution. More ressources, for more #selfhosted stuff.

Why English?

That's a good question... I think "because it works".

Joking aside, I have a lot of contact with English language because of my job and my interests. So I decide to also use it on my website. That doesn't mean that every content is strictly English, screenshots and such stuff will likely show German text because I do not change my software settings to English just for taking suitable pictures.
And it also doesn't mean that every word is perfectly translated, or the grammar is perfect, but I am trying to write this as best I can.