Best Home Lab Tools You’re Crazy Not to Use in 2025
Let’s face it, we are always on the lookout for good tools that we can use in our home labs to do various things or just make our lives easier.…
Month: October 2025
5 Things You Should Be Monitoring on Your Home Lab Network (But Probably Aren’t)
You may have spent tons of time optimizing and monitoring the performance of virtual machines, containers, and other infrastructure in your home lab. However, network visibility often gets ignored in…
Zorin OS Is the Best Linux Distro for Windows Users (and Perfect for Home Labs)
If you have been itching to switch to something different than Windows and you have been tempted to move to Linux, but have been afraid to do so, there is…
How To Run GPU-Enabled Containers in Your Home Lab
GPUs are definitely no longer just for gamers or crypto miners. They are also now the essential hardware when it comes to AI, media encoding, and things like machine learning.…
LogForge is the Must-Have Self-Hosted Docker Dashboard for Logs and Alerts
Recently, you may have seen some automation I have been doing with AI to self-heal and correct things in the home lab. One of those workflows I have been using…
Top 10 Automation Scripts Every Home Lab Should Have in 2025
If you want to take your home lab to a home lab 2.0, it’s all about automation. The more of your environment you can have self-manage, the more time you…
Proxmox Cloud-Init Made Easy: Automating VM Provisioning Like the Cloud
There are so many great tools that you can use to automate provisioning a virtual machine in your home lab when running on Proxmox. However, if you are using manual…
Best Self-Hosted AI Tools You Can Actually Run in Your Home Lab
There is no question that AI tools and self-hosted AI is becoming one of the most popular self-hosted applications in home labs at the end of 2025 and beyond. Artificial…
Why You Need an Immutable Home Lab Server OS
Have you ever sunk a weekend into fixing a Linux system that broke after you applied an update or lost track of configuration tweaks that you made? Maybe you forgot…
Minisforum MS-02 Ultra Has Insane Home Lab Potential with 256GB RAM, Triple PCIe, and 25Gb Networking
I continue to get more and more excited about the mini PC space and what is possible in the small form factor of computing. I am still rocking two MS-01’s…