10 Home Lab Mistakes I Made (So You Don’t Have To)
They say that you learn more from mistakes than when things go successfully. I can definitely attest to that fact. I have had some horrible crash and burns in the…
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They say that you learn more from mistakes than when things go successfully. I can definitely attest to that fact. I have had some horrible crash and burns in the…
Traefik is one of my favorite reverse proxies and it stands out for a number of reasons, including how easy it is to use it with infrastructure as code and…
I have been experimenting with SSO lately in the home lab and decided to give Authentik a try. And let me tell you, it is a crazy good self-hosted SSO…
I have been using Nginx Proxy Manager (NPM) for quite some time now, a few years from what I remember. It is a great solution and one that I point…
Networking is literally the lifeblood of your home lab. If the network is no good, then everything else is going to fall down. Things won’t perform well, and you will…
One of the most important areas to take a look at when you start playing around with automating things in your home lab, is the problem of using secrets and…
Storage is one of the coolest projects that you can undertake in your home lab as most apps or services that you want to self-host will have the need to…
When you start building a home lab, one of the first things you realize is how important DNS is. Every service you run, including Proxmox, Docker containers, Kubernetes clusters, or…
I can tell you that when you are on a consumer power grid, one of the biggest headaches with running a home lab is power outages. When you don’t have…
I am loving being able to try out so many cool new AI models in 2025. There are so many great options to choose from now. Who would have thought…