I Tried Forgejo in My Home Lab. It Might Be the Easiest Self-Hosted Git Server Yet
I am always looking for new and better solutions and ways of doing things in the home lab, and also solutions that can help others start their journey of self-hosted…
Author: Brandon Lee
Brandon Lee is the Senior Writer, Engineer and owner at Virtualizationhowto.com, and a 7-time VMware vExpert, with over two decades of experience in Information Technology. Having worked for numerous Fortune 500 companies as well as in various industries, He has extensive experience in various IT segments and is a strong advocate for open source technologies. Brandon holds many industry certifications, loves the outdoors and spending time with family. Also, he goes through the effort of testing and troubleshooting issues, so you don't have to.
I Connected AI to My Home Lab. Then I Realized What It Could Access
When you start experimenting full time with AI and AI tooling, you will find that you will start to get into to connecting MCP servers to your AI agents. Model…
I Tried Omarchy Linux as My Home Lab Workstation This Weekend. Here’s What Happened.
I tend to spend a ridiculous amount of time in the home lab and working with various operating systems. There are so many great OS’s that I love working with…
I Thought My Home Lab Was Self-Hosted Until I Pulled the Internet
One of the reasons I think most of us love self-hosting our resources is the control that it gives us in our environment and over our data. I can host…
9 Home Lab Metrics I Watch Before Something Goes Wrong
There are definitely certain things to watch when it comes to monitoring your home lab for helping to know if there are things that need your attention. For a long…
8 Home Lab Services I Would Run on Bare Metal Instead of Virtualizing
Virtualizing things is one of the coolest ways to run workloads both in production or in the home lab. I know most of the time, I don’t think about virtualization…
7 Things I Never Store on My Proxmox Boot Drive
One of the mistakes to avoid when you spin up a new Proxmox VE Server is one that is easy and common. You might install Proxmox VE Server on a…
I Stopped Running All My Docker Containers 24/7 and Do This Instead
For the most part for years now if I run a Docker container that houses an app, my workflow has been pretty simple. I deploy it using Docker Compose, and…
8 ARM64 Home Lab Mistakes I’d Avoid in 2026
I think ARM64 has become super interesting for home labs in 2026. Everyone it seems is looking for ways to cut down on the cost of electricity spend in the…
I Built a Server That Catches Every Change on My Home Lab Network
I have covered a lot of different angles on home lab backups. For the most part though, these are around the hypervisor, virtual machines on a Proxmox server, and persistent…
