home lab
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5 Storage Projects to Supercharge Your Home Lab This Weekend
Storage is one of the coolest projects that you can undertake in your home lab as most apps or services that you want to self-host will have the need to store things. Aside from specific app data, you will likely…
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How to Totally Control DNS in Your Home Lab
When you start building a home lab, one of the first things you realize is how important DNS is. Every service you run, including Proxmox, Docker containers, Kubernetes clusters, or even something simple depends on DNS resolving correctly. Many when…
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7 Ways to Make Your Home Lab More Resilient to Power Outages
I can tell you that when you are on a consumer power grid, one of the biggest headaches with running a home lab is power outages. When you don’t have your lab setup in the right way to handle power…
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10 Open-Source AI Models You Should Try In Your Home Lab (August 2025)
I am loving being able to try out so many cool new AI models in 2025. There are so many great options to choose from now. Who would have thought we would have had so many different models from different…
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8 Virtual Machine Projects You Need to Build This Weekend!
I have been focused a lot on containerized development and DevOps lately and many of the weekend projects I have written about have been focused there. However, for those that love projects involving virtual machines, these are still very much…
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5 Secure Networking Projects for Your Home Lab This Weekend!
Man so many projects to try and most of us feel like we don’t have enough time. However, I hope you have been enjoying my “weekend” series blog post I have been releasing each Friday to spur on some project-based…
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12 Essential Steps I Take on Every New Docker Host
I get excited when I am spinning up a new Docker container host as I think about all the new, cool workloads and projects that can be ran on it. Building up your Docker container host the right way and…
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New UniFi OS Server Lets You Self-Host the Full UniFi Experience
If you have been following the news lately, Ubiquiti just released something very exciting, UniFi OS Server. This will likely change how we self-host our Unifi controller and network application moving forward. Let’s take a deep dive into what this…
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10 Docker Projects You Can Build in a Weekend and Actually Use!
Do yourself a favor and get accustomed to project-based learning. This is my philosophy to the most effective learning you can do. A home lab is a great way to do this. AND, getting into using containers will totally change…
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Stop Exposing Your Home Lab – Do This Instead
Like most, when I first spun up my home lab, one of the first things I wanted to do like anyone is to be able to hit my home lab services from the Internet. And, I did this for a…
