home lab
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Ultimate Guide to Building a 2.5GbE Home Lab Network in 2025
When it comes to networking, 1 gig networking is becoming “long in the tooth”. There have been many advancements in the networking field, especially getting to 2.5 GbE as a very mainstream standard. In this guide, we will take a…
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NAS vs Virtual SAN vs Ceph: What’s the Best Storage for Your Home Lab?
One of the critical design decisions that you have with a home lab is storage. There are many great options available. And, depending on a few things, like which hypervisor you use, you can choose from a wide range of…
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Home Lab Security: 5 Threats You’re Not Watching (But Should Be)
Running your home lab is a tremendously good resource for learning. It allows you to get your hands on many different technologies and experiment with these in a way that would not be possible otherwise. However, Most who spin up…
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Killer Home Lab Projects You Can Build in a Weekend
I think that learning in the home lab is best accomplished by having your learning be project-based. When you have a project that actually benefits you in the home lab environment, it accelerates your learning as you are actually attacking…
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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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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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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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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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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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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…
