Category: home lab

I have been through quite a transition with my home lab moving into 2026. Not just hardware. There has been a lot of changes on the hardware front, but in…

One of the things that I really missed about going away from enterprise grade servers is the out of band management they have by default. Dell has iDRAC, Supermicro has…

Over the last few years my home lab has diminished in the footprint of the servers I have used to run my home lab workloads. For several years, I ran…

As you know if you have read my blog posts over the course of the past several months, I have been writing a lot about home lab documentation. Keeping things…

Building your first home lab is an exciting adventure and an extremely addictive and rewarding hobby, that not only is fun, but also teaches you skills that you can apply…

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…