Ultimate Home Lab Starter Stack for 2026 (Key Recommendations)
If you were able to wipe the slate clean and start your home lab journey fresh today for the beginning of 2026, what would your starter stack look like? I…
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.
Do You Really Need Wi-Fi 7 in Your Home Lab in 2025?
Usually we are thinking about upgrading other hardware in our home labs, including mini PCs, network switches, storage, and RAM (cough cough with today’s prices). However, there is another aspect…
Why Containers Will Be More Important Than Ever in the 2026 Home Lab
I think we are seeing a paradigm shift in hardware landscape with the surging price of consumer RAM. This is not only going to affect the obvious, RAM upgrades, but…
Why Deq Might Be the Best Home Lab Dashboard in 2025
Most of us have tried many of the home lab dashboards that are out there. I know I have been through the common list of them available. And there are…
Has RAM Pricing Just Made Used Enterprise Servers the Better Home Lab Deal?
Wow if you have been watching the pricing on RAM in the past few months, we have seen prices skyrocket. This isn’t a good development for those of us running…
Proxmox Datacenter Manager Just Went GA and It Changes Everything
If you have been following Promxox for the past couple of years now, there is one tool that piqued I think the attention of all of us and that is…
Beelink SER9 Max Review: Major Platform Upgrades and Real 10 Gig Networking
We are always looking out for great little mini PCs for the home lab that have the capabilities we expect and great features to self-host workloads. Beelink sent over a…
12 Things I Wish I Knew Before Upgrading My Home Lab to 10 Gig
One of the best upgrades that I have undergone in my home lab is the move to 10 GbE networking. Without a doubt, that was one of the best performance…
Logward Is the Lightweight Syslog Server Every Home Lab Needs in 2025
I am constantly on the lookout for great tools that help to do things easier in the home lab environment and production than what I am doing currently. In doing…
2025 Home Lab Network Upgrades Every Home Lab Needs
Networking like everything else has evolved quite a bit over the past few years, not really in terms of new technologies, but in terms of new hardware, and pricing of…