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

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

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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Technitium DNS clustering brings native high availability to home lab DNS, replacing Pi-Hole sync tools with centralized, reliable DNS redundancy.
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PatchMon Is the Linux Update GUI I’ve Been Wanting for My Home Lab

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)

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

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

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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Increase Usable RAM In Your Home Lab Without Buying More Memory

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

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

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

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