One little success for me...
...is still just a little success for me. I finally got some networking things figured out and I feel great about the screen-cap above. It shows that all of the machines in my sci-fi harem are connected, have proper ip addresses and have host names that show up on the router.
This was a challenge for me because of my Fundamental Inability to Comprehend Networking and All That Entails (FICNATE). Because I managed to pull it off, I now have a fully working platform for learning how to do load balancing, test file backup schemes, and a whole bunch of things I can try without crashing my live servers. There's a whole bunch of stuff that I would like to try and I have to start a list.
If you have any ideas for things that can be done with my network, the more absurd the better, let me know and I'll scribe it to a text file somewhere in my house.