My entire homelab runs on an 8-year-old laptop most people would throw away
…It offered a few advantages over traditional server setups. First, it had a built-in UPS, the battery. Power cuts don’t pair well with a server that’s meant to run…
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I mapped every machine in my home lab with this free tool
…each device in your home server. While we’re on the subject… ... That can record more than just your network stack You can even feed your VM specs into the app Aside…
Most people stop at Pi-hole, but Unbound is the privacy upgrade your home network actually needs
…pairing it with Pi-hole is the perfect setup to balance ease of use and privacy. But it still needs a DNS server Pi-hole is a tool for handling DNS queries…
SteamOS couldn’t revive my old GPU, so I went with this non-Bazzite distro instead
…There’s a lot of life left in this machine Considering that I’ve previously run this setup for my remote gaming VM misadventures, I was pretty confident in my 10-year…
I stopped dual-booting Linux after discovering Windows' hidden kernel
…On one of my Windows machines, I run an Ubuntu system with a Docker setup that hosts a single stack. It runs a Paperless-ngx server, which serves as a document management…
Most people never check this one router setting, and it's why their internet feels slow
…Since Unbound is lightweight and talks directly to the root servers, there’s no middleman, no query logs sent to a third party, and I get DNSSEC validation. This setup runs on…
I gave Home Assistant access to my NAS, and it became the dashboard my smart home was missing
…When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, his interests include…
Mini PC clusters are silently replacing rack servers in home labs, and I finally understand why
…I started out with a much simpler setup using some old rack-mounted servers, but over the years, I've picked up a stack of mini PCs, and I get it now…
Email alerts in Proxmox saved me from discovering backup failures weeks too late
…ve made Proxmox the heart of my home lab/NAS setup, and while I end up working in my TrueNAS VM more often than Proxmox itself, it's still important to make…
My entire home lab cost less than a new GPU, and it does more for me too
…A shiny new GPU can seem like the golden goose, but what if I told you that there's a potential upgrade to your entire setup that costs half as much while…