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9 Home Lab Services I Would Deploy First on a Fresh Proxmox Install

17 December 2025 at 21:18

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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Discover 9 essential home lab services to deploy first on Proxmox, including DNS, backups, logging, automation, and local AI workloads.

Stop Using Pi-Hole Sync Tools and Use Technitium DNS Clustering Instead

16 December 2025 at 21:15

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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PatchMon Is the Linux Update GUI I’ve Been Wanting for My Home Lab

15 December 2025 at 21:23

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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Ultimate Home Lab Starter Stack for 2026 (Key Recommendations)

12 December 2025 at 21:13

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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Build the ultimate home lab starter stack for 2026 with Proxmox, containers, mini PCs, backups, reverse proxies, and must-have self-hosted tools.

Do You Really Need Wi-Fi 7 in Your Home Lab in 2025?

11 December 2025 at 21:21

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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Why Containers Will Be More Important Than Ever in the 2026 Home Lab

10 December 2025 at 21:26

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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Has RAM Pricing Just Made Used Enterprise Servers the Better Home Lab Deal?

8 December 2025 at 21:11

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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Proxmox Datacenter Manager Just Went GA and It Changes Everything

5 December 2025 at 21:49

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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Beelink SER9 Max Review: Major Platform Upgrades and Real 10 Gig Networking

4 December 2025 at 21:43

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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12 Things I Wish I Knew Before Upgrading My Home Lab to 10 Gig

3 December 2025 at 21:40

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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Logward Is the Lightweight Syslog Server Every Home Lab Needs in 2025

2 December 2025 at 21:14

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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2025 Home Lab Network Upgrades Every Home Lab Needs

1 December 2025 at 20:34

Networking like everything else has evolved quite a bit over the past few years, not really in terms of new technologies, but in terms of new hardware, and pricing of…

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Increase Usable RAM In Your Home Lab Without Buying More Memory

28 November 2025 at 22:08

If you are like me you are doing double takes when it comes to RAM prices. It seems like over the past few weeks it has crept up on me…

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Learn how to increase usable RAM in your home lab with tuning tips, NVMe memory tiering, Optane swap, containerization, and smart VM optimization.

The Best Mini PCs for Home Labs in 2025 (Ranked by Real Performance)

27 November 2025 at 22:27

About two and a half years ago I transitioned my home lab over to mini PCs. And, I have to say I haven’t looked back since the. They have fully…

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What’s Up Docker Keeps Your Home Lab Containers Updated Automatically

26 November 2025 at 21:31

Each time I mention Watchtower for container updates, I generally have comments that Watchtower is a very stale project. This is definitely true as it hasn’t had any updates in…

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IncusOS Is the New Minimal Hypervisor OS Changing Home Labs in 2025

25 November 2025 at 21:40

Many in the home lab these days are running Proxmox, XCP-ng, or β€œmaybe” back to the now free β€œagain” VMware ESXi. However, another really cool hypervisor that you may not…

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Complete Guide to Proxmox Containers in 2025: Docker VMs, LXC, and New OCI Support

24 November 2025 at 21:32

One of the things that I really like about Proxmox is all the options it gives when it comes to running containers. And, with the new release of Proxmox VE…

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Learn how to run Proxmox containers in 2025 using Docker VMs, LXC, and new OCI support with tips for performance, updates, and home lab.

15 Troubleshooting Commands Every Linux Home Lab Admin Should Know

21 November 2025 at 21:06

Running your own self-hosted environment usually means you are going to be running Linux servers at some point (or you should be). Linux provides one of the most robust and…

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Proxmox VE 9.1 Launches with OCI Image Support, vTPM Snapshots, and Big SDN Upgrades

20 November 2025 at 21:11

Here we are late in 2025, with the news that Proxmox VE 9.1 has been released as news from the Proxmox official blog has announced. This release has a lot…

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