Your Drives Might Be Failing. Check These Free Tools
Storage is one of the absolutely critical aspects of any home lab and computing environment in general. And, unfortunately, storage issues can creep in without even having any signs of…
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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…
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…
The 7 Proxmox Commands I Use Constantly in My Home Lab
With all the great GUI platforms and third-party and community tools we have for Proxmox, you might think there would never be a need to visit the command line in…
Why Mini PC Clusters Are Taking Over Home Labs
My home lab has been morphing more the past couple of years than in all the time that I have had one up and running. There have been a crazy…