…Plus, setting up (and more importantly, troubleshooting) FOSS services has taught me a lot about containerization and the Linux CLI. But the most underrated feature of self-hosting is that it got…
…There is still a real case for refining and rebuilding often Experimentation is part of why home labs exist To be fair, a home lab isn’t supposed to be a frozen…
…For example, if I wanted to use local models when troubleshooting random home lab problems, I could toss all the documentation I’ve built over the years into the LLM provider and…
…Or, if I didn’t already have productivity-centric tools scattered across my Proxmox nodes, I'd use Coolify to run n8n , Joplin, Homebox, BentoPDF, SearXNG, Syncthing , and other must-have FOSS…
…Subreddits like r/selfhosted and r/homelab have accumulated substantial user bases, and the quality of the documentation, guides, and troubleshooting resources available has improved in step. What used to require either…
…homelab server. All services were deployed as separate Docker containers through Portainer. Jellyfin, Immich, and Nextcloud handled media, photos, and file services. Pi-hole, Cloudflared, and Omada Controller handled the network and…
…For an always-on home lab, one system wins anyway Lower friction matters more than theoretical hardware flexibility That said, the more practical my home lab became, the weaker the cluster argument…
…Sign in to your XDA account Ever since I built my first Network-Attached Storage server, I’ve been using it to house all sorts of media. On the backup front, I…
…Sign in to your XDA account Home server platforms have become more accessible and varied over the years, to the point where you can build a reliable virtualization rig regardless of whether…
…That split doesn’t make a home lab less elegant. It makes it more resilient. Service type Better on standalone hardware Better virtualized in Proxmox Why Router / firewall Yes Sometimes Network edge…