I Bought a 10 Gig Switch to Fix My Proxmox Ceph Cluster and It Changed Everything
As you all know if you have been keeping up with my home lab adventures as of late, I have been heavily diving into Proxmox VE Server and Ceph software-defined…
Why Your NAS Is the Perfect Proxmox Backup Server
If you are running a Proxmox VE Server environment, you will want to set up backups as soon as possible. Proxmox Backup Server is the obvious choice for this since…
Best Automation Projects You Can Build for Proxmox in a Home Lab in 2026
Proxmox has definitely become one of the most popular platforms for home labs, arguably THE most popular. That momentum doesn’t look to be slowing down in 2026. In fact, I…
The Easiest Performance Upgrades You Can Make in Your Home Lab in 2026
With all the gloom and doom on pricing of hardware and components at the beginning of 2026, upgrading can be painful and expensive. However, there are a few “low hanging…
Are Home Labs Dead in 2026? The Comment That Forced Me to Rethink Everything
I recently had a comment on a blog post that stopped me in my tracks. It was a comment from a reader that made me stop and think about the…
Monitor Your Proxmox Home Lab Like a Boss: The Monitoring Stack I Actually Use
Monitoring your home lab environment running Proxmox is something that all of us should do. Monitoring is not the most thrilling aspect of any home lab, but it is extremely…
I Tried LACP in My Proxmox Home Lab and Here’s What Actually Happened
Since I have been playing around a LOT lately with Proxmox and software-defined storage, there was another configuration that I wanted to test in my Proxmox environment. That was LACP…
I Built a Ceph Erasure-Coded NVMe Cluster in My Home Lab. Here’s What Actually Happened
I have been super geeking out on my home lab this week going all in on some nerd knobs of Proxmox clustering and Ceph storage between my cluster hosts. I…
Proxmox Tips I Wish I Knew Before Building My First Home Lab
We have all been there with technologies that we are learning for the first time. We don’t know what we don’t know. When I first started building my home lab…
The Smallest Home Lab That Still Feels Like a Real Datacenter
There is no question that my home lab has been shrinking, not in terms of processing and other power, but in terms of physical footprint this year. I have been…