A Look Back at My 2025 Home Lab and What Changed Along the Way
Man 2025 has been an exciting year for home labbing. I have been able to experiment with a lot of great software solutions and new hardware, including mini PCs and…
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 Spent a Year Running Proxmox and VMware Side by Side in My Home Lab
For years personally and professional, VMware was simply the default choice for production and home lab in my opinion. It was familiar, stable, and everyone was using it at their…
Proxmox Defaults I Leave Alone (And the Ones I Always Change)
One thing that I think makes a really good hypervisor is if it comes out of the box with reasonable and sensible defaults that allow you to hit the ground…
Why Arcane Might Be the Next Big Docker UI for the Home Lab
There has been a lot of community projects that have sprung up around Docker UIs and dashboards. Most of us run Docker in the home lab and as your containers…
I Took Docker Container Monitoring to the Next Level With These 3 Tools
I feel like the pieces of Docker monitoring with recent tools brought online in the home lab has finally started to fall into place. For a long time in my…
Things I Stopped Self-Hosting (And Why Cloud or Managed Won)
For a long while, especially when I first started with a home lab and self-hosting services, my answer to everything was to self-host it. This mindset I think can serve…
Why Zoraxy Might Be the Best Reverse Proxy for Home Labs
I am constantly on the lookout for new tools that can help with managing resources in the home lab. Reverse proxies are extremely important and useful since they allow you…
Docker Is Slowly Filling Up Your Home Lab Disk Space (And the Tool I Use to Fix It)
Well, it is happening, there is another casualty of the AI boom and that is hard drives. Just in the last couple of days, news of hard drive price increases…
I Now Manage My DNS Server from Git (and It Changed Everything)
I have been writing a lot about DNS lately as I have been trying out a lot of different solutions. Recently, I took the new version of Technitium for a…
Stop Drawing Network Diagrams Manually Scanopy Does It for You
Keeping your network diagrams up to date can be a chore. You already probably know how this story ends. You start out having good intentions and use something like draw.io…