NightFox
I'm Travis. This is my personal corner of the web, and it has been some version of a personal site for a very long time.
I write about the things I actually spend time doing: running servers, building PHP applications, figuring out why a network is misbehaving, playing with old software, maintaining a homelab, and driving or working on buses. Some pages are tutorials. Some are notes to myself. Some exist because I went looking for an answer, found ten bad ones, and decided to write down what finally worked.
What's here?
- Hosting & Infrastructure — cPanel, Proxmox, backups, monitoring, migrations, data centers, and the things I've learned running a hosting company.
- Networking — VLANs, routing, BGP, tunnels, data-center networking, troubleshooting, and whatever packet problem I was working on when I wrote the page.
- Programming — mostly PHP and MySQL, plus APIs, old code, newer code, ColdFusion/Lucee, and the little utilities I build because I need them.
- Homelab — my own lab going back to the early 2000s, including old photos and diagrams I pulled over from my TechTrav wiki.
- Buses — driving, ownership, maintenance, school-bus trivia, and a subject I know far too much about.
- Retro web stuff — old interfaces, old software, and the part of me that still thinks the web was more interesting when everybody's site looked different.
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Reworked the ColdFusion and Lucee section so it better reflects where I actually am with the platform: I knew of ColdFusion MX years ago, but did not use it then. I first started experimenting with it in December 2025 and am now learning modern CFML through Lucee.
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Trimmed the ColdFusion section back from the overly broad tutorial-style material and kept it focused on my own experiments, notes, and the old MX curiosity that started the whole thing.
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Added Musings, a home for personal observations and thoughts that do not fit elsewhere on the site.
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Added the first musing, Thoughts on the Old Web, reflecting on the evolution of the web and the rise of social media platforms.
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Expanded Buses and Professional Driving into a full operator's field guide covering my driving history, training, vehicle geometry, mirrors, air brakes, loading, backing, inspections, defensive driving, bus ownership, and reusable vehicle profiles.
The old NightFox site
NightFox goes back to my AOL-era screen name and the kind of personal sites I was building in the 2000s. I do not want this site to turn into a polished corporate knowledge base. It is supposed to look and feel like somebody actually lives here.
I started messing with servers and websites as a teenager, turned that into a hosting business, and never really stopped. These days my work crosses Linux, virtualization, networking, PHP/MySQL, data-center infrastructure, and the odd piece of ancient software that somebody still needs.
Outside of tech, I am also a CDL bus driver and co-own a small transportation company, which is why this site can go from BGP to air brakes without any warning.
Read the longer version or find me on the fediverse at @[email protected].
Last Modified: September 23, 2026, 2:56 pm