Most home servers are wildly overbuilt, and the N100 proved it to me
…to think about after it’s running. The Ryzen 9 still has obvious advantages Of course, it’s true that a Ryzen 9 is much faster, and plenty of home lab users…
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My home lab sounded like a jet engine until I stopped ignoring this one thing
…Sign in to your XDA account My home lab has grown over the years from an old gaming rig given new life and ex-enterprise networking gear to more of a coherent…
Stop treating the Raspberry Pi 5 as a smart home hub — it's actually built for something bigger
…That flexibility also changes how you think about reliability. When the same machine hosts multiple small services, you’re not chasing performance for bragging rights. You’re trying to avoid a setup…
Linux containers do what my Proxmox VMs couldn't: run a dozen services without wasting half my memory
…Virtual machines still have an important role in my home lab, but they’ve become the exception rather than the default. LXCs have given me faster restarts, lower baseline resource use, smaller…
These $10 home lab upgrades solved problems I didn't know I had
…Sign in to your XDA account When you think about home lab upgrades, you’d probably imagine faster NICs, enterprise-tier HBAs, VRAM-laden graphics cards, and other costly equipment. However, the…
I gave my home lab self-healing powers using Prometheus, Grafana, and one free monitoring stack
…Quiz 8 Questions · Test Your Knowledge The ultimate Promxox home lab monitor Trivia challenge Think you know your dashboards from your data sources? Test your home lab monitoring skills now. Proxmox Monitoring…
I installed TrueNAS 26 beta on my NAS, but I'm treating it like a test, not an upgrade
…I didn’t go into the install thinking I’d click through an update, reboot, and get back to normal life. I treated the NAS as a test machine that happened to…
FreeBSD 15 reminded me that boring operating systems are sometimes the whole point
…It feels more cohesive than the average Linux install, and that changes the way you think about maintaining it. That shape matters when you’re using it for something boring, which is…
GPU passthrough to LXCs beats VMs in Proxmox, and it's way simpler than you'd think
…Sign in to your XDA account Although virtual machines and containers work in entirely different ways, you might want to use both in your home lab. After all, virtual machines have better…
This hidden Proxmox setting may sound cursed, but it’s really useful for coding and DIY projects
…For the uninitiated, it’s the arcane art of running virtual machines inside other VMs, and while it has some massive deal-breakers, it completely changed how I worked on my coding…