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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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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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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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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