Why Containers Will Matter More Than Hypervisors in the 2026 Home Lab
Over he past couple of years now we have been seeing a paradigm shift in how we think about our home lab environments. I think the Broadcom buyout of VMware…
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A Look Back at My 2025 Home Lab and What Changed Along the Way
Man 2025 has been an exciting year for home labbing. I have been able to experiment with a lot of great software solutions and new hardware, including mini PCs and…
I Spent a Year Running Proxmox and VMware Side by Side in My Home Lab
For years personally and professional, VMware was simply the default choice for production and home lab in my opinion. It was familiar, stable, and everyone was using it at their…
Why Arcane Might Be the Next Big Docker UI for the Home Lab
There has been a lot of community projects that have sprung up around Docker UIs and dashboards. Most of us run Docker in the home lab and as your containers…
Things I Stopped Self-Hosting (And Why Cloud or Managed Won)
For a long while, especially when I first started with a home lab and self-hosting services, my answer to everything was to self-host it. This mindset I think can serve…
Why Zoraxy Might Be the Best Reverse Proxy for Home Labs
I am constantly on the lookout for new tools that can help with managing resources in the home lab. Reverse proxies are extremely important and useful since they allow you…
10 Small Changes That Made My Home Lab Far More Reliable
When it comes to improving and “upgrading” your home lab, most of us starting thinking about the hardware side of things. More memory (haha, rolling eyes at prices), faster storage,…
9 Home Lab Services I Would Deploy First on a Fresh Proxmox Install
When I build a brand new Proxmox host or cluster, I don’t start with deploying everything and the kitchen sink. I focus on getting a small set of home lab…
Stop Using Pi-Hole Sync Tools and Use Technitium DNS Clustering Instead
Having redundant DNS servers in a home lab is a great idea and helps to shore up one of the single points of failure that we can have in the…
Ultimate Home Lab Starter Stack for 2026 (Key Recommendations)
If you were able to wipe the slate clean and start your home lab journey fresh today for the beginning of 2026, what would your starter stack look like? I…