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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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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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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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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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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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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I have been on a kick lately of trying out various Linux distros. The Linux distro ecosystem has had some really great introductions over the past couple of years. Just…

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Running a home lab in 2025 is one of the most exciting and fun things you can build. It also develops skills that others simply don’t build without one. Networking…

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When you start out in the home lab managing containers, this always starts out fairly simple when you have one or two containers. You might even introduce a reverse proxy…

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Home lab tech is growing, morphing, and evolving rapidly like everything else in the industry. We have more automation, containerized apps, and more potential in our mini PCs than ever…

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I recently in compiling my latest list of Proxmox tools that you need to know about for the home lab, stumbled on a new community-developed tool called PVETUI. It is…

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There are many great operating systems out there for home lab, including Ubuntu Server, Fedora, Debian, and others. But there is one that you may not have tried as of…

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Proxmox is definitely the de facto standard for open-source virtualization in the home lab. It is a crazy good virtualization platform that you can run for free, with clustering, and…

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There are certain docker containers that make a lot of sense to run in a home lab that just make life easier, better, and more efficient in the lab environment.…

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Network latency can absolutely kill your performance. If you have noticed y our virtual machines lagging, or your Docker containers struggling to pull images down. Or, if you have felt…

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So I had to do a double take when I looked at the ProxMenuX repo and saw that with the latest release there is a new tool that is included…

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There is definitely a checklist of things that I think are good to mention when it comes to backing up things in the home lab. We all know about “backups”…

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One of the strengths I think to the home lab community is that we all try to squeeze as much as we can out of our gear. Many of us…

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Monitoring your home lab infrastructure is one of the most important things you can stand up and learn about. Otherwise, yes, you can still have fun in a home lab…

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If you are like me, I have always been interested in networking and the technologies that allow us to get packets from point A to point B. In the home…

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