Why Your Home Lab Feels Slow (And What I Found)
Have you ever had those frustrating moments when running a home lab and you know that everything looks like it is “technically” working, but things just “feel” slow? It is…
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10 Home Lab Tools That Made My Setup Feel Like a Real Datacenter
There comes a point where when you use the right tools and architect things the right way, your home lab can absolutely start feeling like an enterprise-grade environment. When this…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Consumer vs Enterprise SSDs in the Home Lab: I Benchmarked Both in Ceph
A lot of questions on types of hardware come up when ones are building a home lab server or home lab cluster that are definitely worth asking. Recently I had…
7 Tools I Always Install on Every New Home Lab Linux Server
There is always a set of tools that most of us become familiar with and rely on when it comes to different types of operating systems or platforms. I am…
How I Fixed Heat Buildup in My 10-Inch Mini Rack with a Simple Cooling Mod
One of the tradeoffs of running a dense mini rack full of compact systems is heat. When you stack multiple high performance mini PCs into a small enclosed rack, even…
5 Home Lab Hardware Projects Most People Keep Putting Off
When thinking about projects in the home lab, most of what I know my mind goes to is software projects and cool solutions that I want to implement that adds…