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home lab
Top 5 Tools I Use to Manage My Home Lab in 2025
In running a home lab, you will spin up numerous resources, including containers, virtual machines, networks, and many other types of components that comprise self-hosting your services. Certain tools make managing all of these different components and resources much easier.…
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home lab
Synology Just Locked Down Your NAS Drives Here’s What to Use Instead
Well, Synology has placed a lock down on the hard drives they will support in their upcoming Synology NAS devices. They are going to start enforcing stricter hard drive rules in the latest 2025 Plus Series NAS models. Synology has…
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Computers
Best Budget GPU for AI in Your Home Server 2025
The heart of running AI workloads at home is the GPU installed in your AI workstation or AI server. If you are running local LLMs like LLaMA or looking to generate images with something like Stable Diffusion, the GPU you…
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home lab
5 Reasons Proxmox Is the Ultimate Home Lab Hypervisor in 2025
There has certainly been a major shift in virtualization technologies over the past year or so. So many have been fleeing VMware for other hypervisors. It seems like Proxmox has become the new favorite in the community and home lab…
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home lab
5 Powerful but Cheap AI Workstations You Didn’t Know You Could Get (Perfect for Your Home Lab!)
I have really been looking at AI for the home lab and the hardware needed to run local language models (LLMs) successfully and in a speedy way. There is no question that GPUs are the heart of the solution as…
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Daily Tech Deals April 15 2025 (Gaming Chair, NVMe, and RAM UPGRADE)
If you are looking for great deals on home lab, here are three that I think you should look at. Check out items on today’s daily tech deals, including GTPLAYER Gaming Chair for 40% off, SAMSUNG 990 PRO SSD 4TB…
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home lab
5 Unexpected Ways to Use AI in Your Home Lab in 2025
AI has been one of the most revolutionary technologies that has come about in our lifetime. It is continuing to change the world around us as we know it and the capabilities of technology tools that we know and use.…
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Daily Tech Deals April 14 2025 (Great Ryzen Mini PCs for Home lab)
If you are looking for great deals on home lab mini PCs, there are lots of great Ryzen-based mini PCs and also Intel N series mini PCs on discounts today. Check out items on today’s daily tech deals. You can…
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home lab
Install the New VMware ESXi Free Edition Custom ISOs and Limitations
So you may be like me and still wondering if this is some kind of parallel universe where Broadcom reversed their decision to pull the free VMware ESXi hypervisor. But if you have been following my latest blog posts and…
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VMware
VMware ESXi Free Edition Available Again with 8.0U3e – Download Now!
I really couldn’t believe the news that just surfaced on Twitter and elsewhere that Broadcom is bringing back the Free ESXi hypervisor. When we say this past year and this year already has been tumultuous on a hypervisor front, that…
