I Tested Cosmos Server: Is This the Best Home Server OS Yet?
There are many great home server operating systems out there like TrueNAS, Unraid, Yunohost, CasaOS, Cloudron, and others. All of these are great in their own right. However, there is…
Tag: home lab
The Top DevOps Skills in 2026 You Can Learn in a Home Lab
Man DevOps has certainly gotten exciting for me personally. There are just so many cool things that we can do in the home lab now with very cool solutions and…
Inside My Mini Rack Proxmox and Kubernetes Home Lab for 2026
Going into home lab testing and learning for 2026, I wanted to continue building on a project I started with my mini 10 inch rack while also making better use…
MikroTik Switch Tips That Actually Matter in a Home Lab
When looking for cheap but robust network switches for the home lab, there is always one name that seems to make it on most lists and that is Mikrotik. They…
This New Traefik Dashboard Log Tool Changed How I Manage Traefik in Real Time
Traefik is ultimately my favorite reverse proxy for the homelab. In my opinion it has unsurpassed capabilities as a reverse proxy both for Docker and Kubernetes. It is extremely powerful…
The Weirdest Things I’ve Successfully Run in My Home Lab
I have self-hosted a lot of things over the years in my home lab. However, we all eventually reach a point where we run a few less than normal things…
Beelink ME Pro NAS Review: Small Box, Huge Storage Power in 2026
I just received over the Beelink ME Pro from Beelink for review in the home lab. This I have to say is one that did catch my attention when I…
I Bought a 10 Inch Home Lab Rack for 2026 and It Surprised Me
If you have spent any time in home lab communities this past year in 2025, you will have noticed a trend that seems to be sweeping the home lab community,…
Run Proxmox Datacenter Manager in a Docker Container for Home Labs and Testing
If you have been following my recent experiments in the home lab, I recently tested a very cool project for running Proxmox VE Server inside a Docker container. The developer…
Why Dockhand Is One of the Best Docker Management Tools for Secure Operations
I have tried a whole lot of different Docker “dashboards” and consoles over the past few years. We have seen this area explode with many different options available out there…