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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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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