home lab
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Future-Proof Your Home Server: Why NVMe, ZFS, and 10GbE Are Non-Negotiable in 2025
All of us want to know that our investments are going to last at least as long as possible. When you make an investment in your home lab, the same is true. There are definitely core technologies to be looking…
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Checkmate Monitoring for Free Open Source Docker Solution for Uptime Monitoring
I am always on the lookout for great new open-source tools for monitoring and management in the home lab and in production environments. I am a huge fan of Uptime Kuma as a monitoring solution, and other tools like Prometheus…
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Minisforum N5 Pro NAS might replace our home lab servers with AI storage?
I have to say that this is one that I am really excited about. The Minisforum N5 Pro NAS will be Minisforum’s first foray into the NAS world. However, they are already very adept with hardware that is both cutting…
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Home Lab Explorers School for learning Proxmox DevOps Kubernetes and more!
There are so many great resources out on the Internet to learn about things, especially now with AI. However, the sense of community is also an important aspect of learning and staying motivated. I have been working to share my…
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Ultimate Guide to Building a 2.5GbE Home Lab Network in 2025
When it comes to networking, 1 gig networking is becoming “long in the tooth”. There have been many advancements in the networking field, especially getting to 2.5 GbE as a very mainstream standard. In this guide, we will take a…
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NAS vs Virtual SAN vs Ceph: What’s the Best Storage for Your Home Lab?
One of the critical design decisions that you have with a home lab is storage. There are many great options available. And, depending on a few things, like which hypervisor you use, you can choose from a wide range of…
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Home Lab Security: 5 Threats You’re Not Watching (But Should Be)
Running your home lab is a tremendously good resource for learning. It allows you to get your hands on many different technologies and experiment with these in a way that would not be possible otherwise. However, Most who spin up…
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Killer Home Lab Projects You Can Build in a Weekend
I think that learning in the home lab is best accomplished by having your learning be project-based. When you have a project that actually benefits you in the home lab environment, it accelerates your learning as you are actually attacking…
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Top 5 Tools I Use to Manage My Home Lab in 2025
In running a home lab, you will spin up numerous resources, including containers, virtual machines, networks, and many other types of components that comprise self-hosting your services. Certain tools make managing all of these different components and resources much easier.…
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Synology Just Locked Down Your NAS Drives Here’s What to Use Instead
Well, Synology has placed a lock down on the hard drives they will support in their upcoming Synology NAS devices. They are going to start enforcing stricter hard drive rules in the latest 2025 Plus Series NAS models. Synology has…
