Let’s face it, we are always on the lookout for good tools that we can use in our home labs to do various things or just make our lives easier.…

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You may have spent tons of time optimizing and monitoring the performance of virtual machines, containers, and other infrastructure in your home lab. However, network visibility often gets ignored in…

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If you have been itching to switch to something different than Windows and you have been tempted to move to Linux, but have been afraid to do so, there is…

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GPUs are definitely no longer just for gamers or crypto miners. They are also now the essential hardware when it comes to AI, media encoding, and things like machine learning.…

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Recently, you may have seen some automation I have been doing with AI to self-heal and correct things in the home lab. One of those workflows I have been using…

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If you want to take your home lab to a home lab 2.0, it’s all about automation. The more of your environment you can have self-manage, the more time you…

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There are so many great tools that you can use to automate provisioning a virtual machine in your home lab when running on Proxmox. However, if you are using manual…

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There is no question that AI tools and self-hosted AI is becoming one of the most popular self-hosted applications in home labs at the end of 2025 and beyond. Artificial…

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Have you ever sunk a weekend into fixing a Linux system that broke after you applied an update or lost track of configuration tweaks that you made? Maybe you forgot…

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I continue to get more and more excited about the mini PC space and what is possible in the small form factor of computing. I am still rocking two MS-01’s…

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What are we talking about? Keep a home lab safe??? Well, it is easy to get carried away when you run a home lab. The whole point of having one…

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There is no question that Terraform is my favorite infrastructure as code tool in the home lab for standing up infrastructure. Ansible is my favorite for configuration management. With Terraform,…

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We have exciting times to be able to run a home lab with all the automation, AI, and other tools available to us to use. In fact, I am more…

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In case you haven’t seen the news, TrueNAS announced a new open beta of a new and exciting app called, TrueNAS Connect. It is a hosted, management interface that is…

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I think all of us are looking for very cool tools that can add modern dashboards to Proxmox and to help monitor what is going on with your Proxmox host,…

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Every accomplishment in the home lab starts with curiosity about various technologies. That to me, is the spark that motivates all of us. We want to try new things, break…

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Linux is one of the best choices for self-hosting applications. It is generally very fast, lightweight, and lacks the bloat of other operating systems like Windows Server OS when it…

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There is no question that one of THE most important parts of your home lab is the networking component. Home labs are like real production environments. If the network is…

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With most running Proxmox or leaning towards running Proxmox in the home lab for the foreseeable future, running Docker containers on top of a Proxmox environment is a given. Proxmox…

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Backups are never the “fun” part of a home lab and honestly it may be one of the last things you think about. I know for me the most exciting…

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