For a long while, especially when I first started with a home lab and self-hosting services, my answer to everything was to self-host it. This mindset I think can serve…

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I am constantly on the lookout for new tools that can help with managing resources in the home lab. Reverse proxies are extremely important and useful since they allow you…

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Well, it is happening, there is another casualty of the AI boom and that is hard drives. Just in the last couple of days, news of hard drive price increases…

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I have been writing a lot about DNS lately as I have been trying out a lot of different solutions. Recently, I took the new version of Technitium for a…

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Keeping your network diagrams up to date can be a chore. You already probably know how this story ends. You start out having good intentions and use something like draw.io…

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Most of us are looking for low-hanging fruit for optimizations you can do that get quick results that are beneficial. Below is a weekend-friendly set of optimizations that will provide…

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Docker logs are definitely one of the first places I look when troubleshooting issues with containers. It is often where you will find the root cause of the issue that…

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When it comes to improving and “upgrading” your home lab, most of us starting thinking about the hardware side of things. More memory (haha, rolling eyes at prices), faster storage,…

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When I build a brand new Proxmox host or cluster, I don’t start with deploying everything and the kitchen sink. I focus on getting a small set of home lab…

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Having redundant DNS servers in a home lab is a great idea and helps to shore up one of the single points of failure that we can have in the…

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An aspect of maintaining a production environment or home lab environment that I have personally never really enjoyed is patching. However, it is one of those necessary evils when you…

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If you were able to wipe the slate clean and start your home lab journey fresh today for the beginning of 2026, what would your starter stack look like? I…

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Usually we are thinking about upgrading other hardware in our home labs, including mini PCs, network switches, storage, and RAM (cough cough with today’s prices). However, there is another aspect…

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I think we are seeing a paradigm shift in hardware landscape with the surging price of consumer RAM. This is not only going to affect the obvious, RAM upgrades, but…

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Most of us have tried many of the home lab dashboards that are out there. I know I have been through the common list of them available. And there are…

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Wow if you have been watching the pricing on RAM in the past few months, we have seen prices skyrocket. This isn’t a good development for those of us running…

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If you have been following Promxox for the past couple of years now, there is one tool that piqued I think the attention of all of us and that is…

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We are always looking out for great little mini PCs for the home lab that have the capabilities we expect and great features to self-host workloads. Beelink sent over a…

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One of the best upgrades that I have undergone in my home lab is the move to 10 GbE networking. Without a doubt, that was one of the best performance…

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I am constantly on the lookout for great tools that help to do things easier in the home lab environment and production than what I am doing currently. In doing…

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