9 OPNsense Settings I Change for Every Home Lab Firewall
When it comes to free and open source firewalls in the home lab, there are a few choices, but many home labbers tend to settle on OPNsense for its wide…
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Back to Home Lab School 2026: 7 Learning Projects to Start This Weekend
It is that time of year again where school is starting for the kiddos and everyone is talking about back to school. If you have a home lab there is…
7 Proxmox Memory Tweaks That Make Your RAM Go Further
RAM is one of those things that can disappear in a home lab VERY quickly, especially if you don’t pay attention to how it is allocated across the board. In…
7 Home Lab Services I Always Give a Static IP Address
DHCP is one of the services that just makes network management much easier. You don’t have to worry when you connect a laptop, smartphone or some other device to your…
The 9 Things My Home Lab Automates While I’m Sleeping
When I think about one of the things that I am most proud of in my home lab in 2026 it is the level of automation and “self sufficiency” that…
The Best Free Home Lab Tools I Discovered in 2026
Every year, I come across dozens of new open source projects that I stumble on or ones may write me about or mention in a comment to try out. Most…
The Docker Networking Mistakes I Still See in Home Labs (And How I Avoid Them)
Docker is an amazing tool that can be used both in production and in our home labs. I am a huge proponent of containerizing what makes sense. In the day…
The systemd Services and Timers I Use in My Immutable Linux Home Lab
For the past several months now, I have shifted my home lab to immutable Linux distros like Flatcar which has changed how I think about installing software and things like…
How I Organize My Entire Home Lab So I Can Actually Find Anything
I have been reflecting on how far things have come in my home lab and ironically, I feel like I am more organized now more than ever before, even though…
The Reverse Proxy Mistakes I Still See in Home Labs (And How I Avoid Them)
Reverse proxies are one of the most critical pieces of infrastructure once you stand up a home lab and start learning containers and hosting things in those containers. You quickly…
