MICHAEL BALCOS

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Last update: August 12, 2025 (Manila time)

You've reached my personal home page. As a Systems Administrator by profession, I passionately make a living by using Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS), and happily make a life by advocating its use. My career has been thoroughly involved in GNU/Linux Systems Administration, automation, monitoring, and infrastructure support roles. Classical music, amateur electronics interfaced to computers and microcontrollers, and model railroading are some of my other personal interests.

In the past, this website used a CMS I wrote from scratch in PHP. And I was confident with its security. However, I believe this website can stand as a static HTML website. This makes me worry less about code and software. Also, this lets me leverage Cloudflare cloud services in making this website available in the WWW with good performance. And Cloudflare has also helped me save money.

I did not write the HTML code of this responsive website from scratch. This is based on the work found in this link.

Please feel free to contact me via e-mail. I can be reached at michael(a)balcos.net .

My current personal projects:

Model Railroads Philippines modelrailroadsph.balcos.net

Philippine History Resources history.com.ph

Michael Balcos' Blog blog.balcos.net