Home Lab Tour 2024: Hardware, Software, Containers and More!
Well, what a year it has been! Wow, I can’t believe how many changes we have seen this year and bumps in the road along the way. But, here we…
Category: home lab
Top 5 Home Lab Projects I have Tackled in 2024
As I look back on 2024, when it comes to my learning and labbing adventures, it has been quite a fruitful year along those lines. I really have enjoyed the…
Split Horizon DNS: How I Resolve a Subset of DNS Records locally
One of the core aspects of any network, whether it be your home lab network or an enterprise network is DNS. It’s always DNS right? DNS has been described as…
Netdata Docker Monitoring for Home Lab
I have been playing around with a lot of Docker monitoring solutions to monitor my critical Docker containers. There are many great open source solutions you can use for Docker…
Raspberry Pi Wayland Kiosk for Home Lab Dashboard
In looking for upgrades to my home lab, one of the things that I wanted to implement was a kiosk type dashboard that rotated between different monitoring screens showing different…
NetBox Docker Compose Install Example
The NetBox solution is a great tool that can allow you to document and have a single source of truth for your network and infrastructure. Network and infrastructure engineers can…
Share your Home Lab 2024 and Win a $799 Mini PC
In an effort to motivate ones to share their home labs with the community, I will be giving away a Beelink SEi14 Mini PC to a random winner who shares…
Enable CPU C States for Massive Power Savings for your Home Server
I have been deep-diving lately into helpful suggestions, configurations, and settings that help to lower the power bill in a home lab or edge environment with server hardware or even…
How to upgrade the Minisforum MS-01 BIOS
If you are running the Minisforum MS-01 in your home lab as a home server, if you are like me, you may have bought one of the first ones that…
Minisforum MS-A1 Giveaway! Comment and Subscribe to win
Recently, I posted a post about the perfect home lab environment. Also, in conjunction with this post, the latest video for my channel focuses on this configuration and also I…