I didn't know my homelab was broken until I found split DNS
…Related I replaced Tailscale with raw WireGuard for a month, and here's what I learned WireGuard didn’t fail me. My assumptions did. The fix was already sitting right there Split…
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My home server is smart, my VPS is deliberately dumb, and that's the whole point
…Pangolin handled the control plane dashboard, Gerbil handled the WireGuard server, Traefik handled the reverse proxy, and Newt ran as the tunnel client. Once that settled, I needed to think about the…
Your home lab's biggest mistake might be running everything in LXCs
…WireGuard for remote lab access VPN services need clean network behavior WireGuard is lightweight enough that running it in an LXC seems obvious. It barely needs resources, it is easy to deploy…
I thought a VPS would replace my home server, but the real costs caught me off guard
…I pointed a domain to the server, set up a VPN like WireGuard, and everything worked as it was supposed to. Using WireGuard instead of Tailscale made the flow more convenient: no…
Switching from Tailscale to Pangolin was easy, but sharing a service with just a link is why I stayed
…It holds a WireGuard tunnel up and keeps doing peer discovery in the background so that the mesh is there the instant you need it, and on a laptop plugged into the…
I tried to replace every Cloudflare service in my homelab — here's what I kept and what I dropped
…Actually, WireGuard would have been a better fit , but CGNAT didn’t allow me to do that. Tailscale was already using WireGuard under the hood without the setup overhead, so the decision…
My old phone can't replace a Raspberry Pi for this home server project
…Once I moved to my Raspberry Pi 5 (8GB), I was even able to host WireGuard, NetAlertX, ntopng, and a handful of other services without causing its temps and resource consumption metrics…
Mini PCs make excellent secondary backup servers, but they'll never replace a dedicated NAS
…pipeline, but if your local network isn’t cursed with CGNAT, you can also configure custom WireGuard containers on both machines. TerraMaster F4-425 Pro $600 $700 Save $100 $600 at TerraMaster
I switched from pfSense to OPNsense, and I'm happy with the upgrade
…On the VPN side, both FreeBSD flavors support OpenVPN, WireGuard, and IPsec, though pfSense requires the last one to be installed via plugins. The same holds true for the IPS/IDS utility…
The NAS feature that changed my home setup wasn't RAID, snapshots, or file sharing
…Instead of providing a built-in cloud-style remote access feature in the operating system, it relies more on networking tools like Tailscale, ZeroTier, or WireGuard for external access. When you need…