Bye Bye OneDrive

2026-06-12 8 min read Sovereignty Bas Van De Sande

One of the features that drew me initially to the cloud was the idea of having your information at your fingertips. As long as I had an internet connection, I had access to my documents and media. No matter where I was, no matter the occasion, no matter the time of day. Just open a browser, and I could pick up exactly where I left off.

For me, that magic started around 2005 when I began working with SharePoint. At the time, it felt revolutionary. Fast‑forward a few years and OneDrive entered the scene: a cloud‑based file system built on top of SharePoint’s foundations.

Backups: The Illusion of Safety

2026-05-11 6 min read Sovereignty Bas Van De Sande

Something was very, very wrong.

Every day, for weeks, the same two emails landed in my inbox: Backup failed. Data corrupted. At first, I ignored them. Big mistake.

A corrupted backup is, in many ways, worse than having no backup at all. You think you’re protected—until the moment you actually need it. That’s when false confidence turns into real risk.

Time to get this sorted out, once and for all.

Sovereignty: When the lights go out!

2026-04-15 6 min read Sovereignty Bas Van De Sande

No matter how meticulously you set up your infrastructure, a power grid failure will take your servers down, unless you have a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) to keep things running. A UPS takes over the power supply, until its battery runs out.
But here’s the catch: even the best UPS is pointless if your services don’t restart automatically when power returns.

I recently put this to the test while installing a car charger at home. For science and out of curiosity, I unplugged the main power line feeding the UPS. The UPS took over instantly, and the Lenovo server, network equipment, and the Synology NAS kept running smoothly.