10 Linux Networking Commands Every Home Lab Admin Should Know in 2025
Running a home lab in 2025 is one of the most exciting and fun things you can build. It also develops skills that others simply don’t build without one. Networking…
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.
Lazy Docker Is the Easiest Way to Manage Home Lab Containers From Your Terminal
When you start out in the home lab managing containers, this always starts out fairly simple when you have one or two containers. You might even introduce a reverse proxy…
10 Best Terminal Tools for Home Labs in 2025
Home lab tech is growing, morphing, and evolving rapidly like everything else in the industry. We have more automation, containerized apps, and more potential in our mini PCs than ever…
This New Tool Lets You Manage Proxmox Entirely from Your Terminal
I recently in compiling my latest list of Proxmox tools that you need to know about for the home lab, stumbled on a new community-developed tool called PVETUI. It is…
NixOS is the Best Home Lab OS You Haven’t Tried Yet
There are many great operating systems out there for home lab, including Ubuntu Server, Fedora, Debian, and others. But there is one that you may not have tried as of…
15 Best Proxmox Tools and Scripts That Make Your Home Lab Easier
Proxmox is definitely the de facto standard for open-source virtualization in the home lab. It is a crazy good virtualization platform that you can run for free, with clustering, and…
15 Docker Containers That Make Your Home Lab Instantly Better
There are certain docker containers that make a lot of sense to run in a home lab that just make life easier, better, and more efficient in the lab environment.…
Smokeping is the Simple Way to Monitor Pings in Your Home Lab
Network latency can absolutely kill your performance. If you have noticed y our virtual machines lagging, or your Docker containers struggling to pull images down. Or, if you have felt…
Meet ProxMenux Monitor: The New Way to Monitor Proxmox Servers
So I had to do a double take when I looked at the ProxMenuX repo and saw that with the latest release there is a new tool that is included…
10 Things You Should Back Up in Your Home Lab (But Probably Don’t)
There is definitely a checklist of things that I think are good to mention when it comes to backing up things in the home lab. We all know about “backups”…