7 Home Lab Upgrades Under $100 That Actually Made a Huge Difference
I get it. Man things are expensive these days. At least currently, the days of simple “and cheap” upgrades like adding RAM or upgrading a hard drive are over for…
Author: Brandon Lee
Brandon Lee is the Senior Writer, Engineer and owner at Virtualizationhowto.com, and a 7-time VMware vExpert, with over two decades of experience in Information Technology. Having worked for numerous Fortune 500 companies as well as in various industries, He has extensive experience in various IT segments and is a strong advocate for open source technologies. Brandon holds many industry certifications, loves the outdoors and spending time with family. Also, he goes through the effort of testing and troubleshooting issues, so you don't have to.
I Stopped Deploying Containers Manually. This Changed My Home Lab
For a LONG time, my home lab has looked like what I imagine most other people’s labs look like. I had a mix of Docker Compose files and a few…
Manage Proxmox Like Kubernetes? This CLI Tool Makes It Possible
If you have spent any amount of time working with Proxmox, you are probably super familiar with the web interface. The default web interface is clean and gives you good…
I Changed How I Access My Home Lab and This Fixed Everything
If you have spent any time at all in building out your home lab, one of the first things you try to decide how to do is remotely access your…
Is Docker Swarm Still Safe in 2026?
If you have been running containers in your home lab or small production environment, there is a good chance you have tried or are currently using Docker Swarm. Swarm has…
5 Mistakes I Made Building My Proxmox Cluster (So You Don’t Have To)
One of the best projects that you can build in the home lab in my opinion for learning and just overall fun is a Proxmox cluster (or any other hypervisor…
6 Home Lab Experiments Worth Trying This Weekend
For a lot of us, the weekend is really when the home lab comes alive. It is often the perfect time to try something new, break something safely, and learn…
This Free Tool Feels Like RVTools for Proxmox (And It’s CLI-Based)
If you are like me and have a long history with VMware environments, there is a good chance RVTools was one of your go-to utilities. It gives you the instant…
7 hidden Proxmox features buried in the admin guide Your Home Lab Needs
Like most hypervisors, some of the best features of Proxmox are not the obvious ones when you first start using it. Some features and capabilities are buried deep inside and…
The Proxmox 9 Feature That Finally Fixes NIC Renaming Problems
If you have run Linux servers for any length of time, there is a good chance you have been bitten by network interface renaming at some point. It usually happens…