Smokeping is the Simple Way to Monitor Pings in Your Home Lab
Network latency can absolutely kill your performance. If you have noticed y our virtual machines lagging, or your Docker containers struggling to pull images down. Or, if you have felt…
Category: home lab
10 Things You Should Back Up in Your Home Lab (But Probably Don’t)
There is definitely a checklist of things that I think are good to mention when it comes to backing up things in the home lab. We all know about “backups”…
5 Signs It’s Time to Upgrade Your Home Lab Hardware
One of the strengths I think to the home lab community is that we all try to squeeze as much as we can out of our gear. Many of us…
Why I Switched to Zabbix for Monitoring My Docker Containers
Monitoring your home lab infrastructure is one of the most important things you can stand up and learn about. Otherwise, yes, you can still have fun in a home lab…
See Everything on Your Home Lab Network with ntopng
If you are like me, I have always been interested in networking and the technologies that allow us to get packets from point A to point B. In the home…
Best Home Lab Tools You’re Crazy Not to Use in 2025
Let’s face it, we are always on the lookout for good tools that we can use in our home labs to do various things or just make our lives easier.…
5 Things You Should Be Monitoring on Your Home Lab Network (But Probably Aren’t)
You may have spent tons of time optimizing and monitoring the performance of virtual machines, containers, and other infrastructure in your home lab. However, network visibility often gets ignored in…
Top 10 Automation Scripts Every Home Lab Should Have in 2025
If you want to take your home lab to a home lab 2.0, it’s all about automation. The more of your environment you can have self-manage, the more time you…
Best Self-Hosted AI Tools You Can Actually Run in Your Home Lab
There is no question that AI tools and self-hosted AI is becoming one of the most popular self-hosted applications in home labs at the end of 2025 and beyond. Artificial…
Why You Need an Immutable Home Lab Server OS
Have you ever sunk a weekend into fixing a Linux system that broke after you applied an update or lost track of configuration tweaks that you made? Maybe you forgot…