I stopped throwing out old hardware after discovering Proxmox
…Contrary to what you might think, you can build a reliable home lab for your self-hosting and experimentation needs with outdated PCs, cheap thin clients, and low-end NAS units. All…
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The NAS feature that changed my home setup wasn't RAID, snapshots, or file sharing
1w agoReplacing paid productivity apps with a self-hosted setup helped me save money, but I had to make some compromises
1w agoAfter self-hosting LLMs for a year, I realized that models are not the real bottleneck
1w agoThese 5 small tweaks made my self-hosted LLM setup way more productive
1w agoMost people waste money on mini PCs when their old laptop is already a better home server
…Self-hosting mostly consists of lightweight, consistent tasks, and it usually doesn't involve performance torture tests, either. As such, a 5–8-year-old laptop with an Intel i5 or a…
Running OpenClaw in Proxmox taught me that elegance doesn't always beat reliability
…Related I used an Intel N100 mini-PC as a standalone Proxmox node – it went really well Besides being able to self-host multiple containers, it can even run a few VMs…
These $10 home lab upgrades solved problems I didn't know I had
…a vital component besides a graphics card, host CPU access, and surplus memory resources. Typical streaming servers need a display for a completely headless setup, and that’s something I learned the…
My entire home lab cost less than a new GPU, and it does more for me too
…Immich Key highlights Self-hosted iOS compatible Yes See at Google Play Store See at Apple App Store See at Immich Related You don’t need to spend too much money to…
Your NAS doesn't need to be all-SSD, and TrueNAS proved it to me
…He writes for XDA-Developers, where he focuses on topics like productivity, networking, self-hosting, and more. Over the years, his work has also appeared in leading publications such as Android Police…
I thought a VPS would replace my home server, but the real costs caught me off guard
…I have a straightforward homelab setup. I am using an old PC as a bare-metal Debian server . I have a fairly big list of self-hosted services for all day-to…
The NAS feature I use every day isn't storage, it's Docker
…But the effort proved to be worth it, as I finally got more use out of my favorite self-hosted services. Self-hosting is my favorite NAS use case It has helped…
A dashboard replaced my scattered notes, and now my home lab actually feels organized
…like some kind of self-hosted locker combination. The easier something is to reach, the less it feels like a chore. That was the part of my setup that annoyed me more…
I moved my entire Kindle library to a self hosted server and escaped the Amazon walled garden for good
I ditched Kindle's walled garden for a self-hosted library, and the control is worth every minute of setup