Year: 2025
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home lab
5 Storage Projects to Supercharge Your Home Lab This Weekend
Storage is one of the coolest projects that you can undertake in your home lab as most apps or services that you want to self-host will have the need to store things. Aside from specific app data, you will likely…
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Proxmox
Top Security Hardening Steps for Proxmox VE 9
Proxmox VE 9 is the latest in the release of Proxmox VE Server now that it is generally available. Many are now looking at upgrading their Proxmox VE 8.x instances to 9. However, outside of the new features and capabilities,…
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home lab
How to Totally Control DNS in Your Home Lab
When you start building a home lab, one of the first things you realize is how important DNS is. Every service you run, including Proxmox, Docker containers, Kubernetes clusters, or even something simple depends on DNS resolving correctly. Many when…
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home lab
7 Ways to Make Your Home Lab More Resilient to Power Outages
I can tell you that when you are on a consumer power grid, one of the biggest headaches with running a home lab is power outages. When you don’t have your lab setup in the right way to handle power…
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home lab
10 Open-Source AI Models You Should Try In Your Home Lab (August 2025)
I am loving being able to try out so many cool new AI models in 2025. There are so many great options to choose from now. Who would have thought we would have had so many different models from different…
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home lab
8 Virtual Machine Projects You Need to Build This Weekend!
I have been focused a lot on containerized development and DevOps lately and many of the weekend projects I have written about have been focused there. However, for those that love projects involving virtual machines, these are still very much…
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Containers
Docker Compose Tricks I Wish I Knew Sooner
Most likely when you start playing around with and using Docker containers in your home lab and production environments, you will eventually start becoming familiar with Docker Compose. Docker compose is generally the go-to tool that many use when working…
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Proxmox
Testing Proxmox 9 Snapshots as Volume Chains on iSCSI (Tech Preview)
One of the new features I was really excited about when looking into the features of Proxmox 9 VE Server was the snapshot capabilities on thick provisioned LUNs with iSCSI and NFS. I think for many VMware admins, it really…
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Containers
10 Common Docker Container Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Running Docker containers is an absolute game changer for your home lab and production environments where they make sense. If you are wanting an easy way to spin up new environments and host apps and services, running containers has so…
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Proxmox
How to Upgrade from Proxmox VE 8 to 9 Fast and Hassle-Free
I have had some questions in the comments about showing the upgrade from Proxmox VE 8 to 9. The official documentation is there, but can be a little hard to follow at times. So, here you go, my how to…
