The services you ignore are quietly breaking your home lab
Some home lab services seem safe to ignore, but DNS, backups, monitoring, and proxies need regular attention to stay reliable.
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Google Drive's 5GB limit forced me to rethink how I use cloud storage
…What surprised me most was how many different services were competing for the same storage pool. Every email attachment, every photo backup, and every document I saved was eating into the same…
Building my own NAS taught me why prebuilt enclosures are holding you back
…This was ample system memory for running a few self-hosted apps and services. NAS devices used to be solely for stashing data, at least that's what I always believed. But…
I turned a Raspberry Pi and mini PC into a portable homelab that fits in my backpack
…The hardware I chose and why it works Reliable setup with role separation I deliberately chose a two-device setup, so I wouldn't rely on a single machine for everything. The…
I automated my news discovery with one tool, and now I spend half the time finding stories
…The entire service is built around reliability, and it's been pretty fail-safe in my testing so far. As I mentioned earlier, my goal was to download author feeds, including my…
Home labbers say to ditch your ISP router, but the Fritz Box 7530 has WireGuard, dynamic DNS, and even a media server
…For self-hosted services, the port forwarding interface is straightforward. You specify the internal device, the port range, and the protocol, and it just works. Even the inclusion of built-in dynamic…
I finally found an open-source Plex client that feels better than the official app
…It is fast, and there is no promotional shelf pushing trending content from services that I don't subscribe to. You won't find a discover tab either. The entire experience is…
These Windows terminal commands fix what Settings can't, and I use them every time my PC breaks
…In most cases, these commands are more powerful and reliable than fixes buried deep within the Settings app or the Control Panel . Some even solve problems that Windows troubleshooters completely miss. Over…
The Windows Terminal is quietly becoming the best terminal on any OS
…He loves writing how-to articles, listicles, and informational posts on popular operating systems and web services. He closely follows the Windows Insider program and tests new Insider builds to discover upcoming…
I tested TrueNAS, Unraid, and OpenMediaVault to find the perfect NAS OS, and there's a clear winner
…I still wouldn’t recommend using it for server experiments, but a NAS does make it the perfect host for storage-hogging services as well as backup operations involving PBS instances. Sadly…