Category: home lab

With all the gloom and doom on pricing of hardware and components at the beginning of 2026, upgrading can be painful and expensive. However, there are a few “low hanging…

I recently had a comment on a blog post that stopped me in my tracks. It was a comment from a reader that made me stop and think about the…

There is no question that my home lab has been shrinking, not in terms of processing and other power, but in terms of physical footprint this year. I have been…

Most have been following my journey of testing and making changes in the home lab. Recently I have been spinning up a minilab running on Proxmox. For years, I have…

Sometimes, you wonder to yourself if you are a self-hoster, am I doing this right? What can I do to make my setup better? When you first start out, progress…

There are many great home server operating systems out there like TrueNAS, Unraid, Yunohost, CasaOS, Cloudron, and others. All of these are great in their own right. However, there is…

Going into home lab testing and learning for 2026, I wanted to continue building on a project I started with my mini 10 inch rack while also making better use…

When looking for cheap but robust network switches for the home lab, there is always one name that seems to make it on most lists and that is Mikrotik. They…