7 Weekend Projects That Make Your Home Lab Less Dependent on You
I have been pretty focused on automation in the home lab. But there is also mindset changes I needed to make to keep from having to baby sit my lab…
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7 Simple Home Lab HA Projects for This Weekend
A lot of times we think about high availability being some complicated or complex thing that we just think in the home lab it isn’t worth doing. However, HA doesn’t…
I Thought Keepalived Only Protected My Home Lab Servers. Then I Found Track Scripts
I have used Keepalived in my home lab for quite some time and most of the time, I have thought of it in a very simple way as to what…
7 Proxmox Decisions That Are Painful to Change Later
This has always been one that has bitten me both in the home lab and in production. The moment that you think this is only a lab or this is…
I Tried Forgejo in My Home Lab. It Might Be the Easiest Self-Hosted Git Server Yet
I am always looking for new and better solutions and ways of doing things in the home lab, and also solutions that can help others start their journey of self-hosted…
I Tried Omarchy Linux as My Home Lab Workstation This Weekend. Here’s What Happened.
I tend to spend a ridiculous amount of time in the home lab and working with various operating systems. There are so many great OS’s that I love working with…
I Thought My Home Lab Was Self-Hosted Until I Pulled the Internet
One of the reasons I think most of us love self-hosting our resources is the control that it gives us in our environment and over our data. I can host…
9 Home Lab Metrics I Watch Before Something Goes Wrong
There are definitely certain things to watch when it comes to monitoring your home lab for helping to know if there are things that need your attention. For a long…
8 Home Lab Services I Would Run on Bare Metal Instead of Virtualizing
Virtualizing things is one of the coolest ways to run workloads both in production or in the home lab. I know most of the time, I don’t think about virtualization…
8 ARM64 Home Lab Mistakes I’d Avoid in 2026
I think ARM64 has become super interesting for home labs in 2026. Everyone it seems is looking for ways to cut down on the cost of electricity spend in the…
