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…
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Why Containers Will Be More Important Than Ever in the 2026 Home Lab
I think we are seeing a paradigm shift in hardware landscape with the surging price of consumer RAM. This is not only going to affect the obvious, RAM upgrades, but…
Why Deq Might Be the Best Home Lab Dashboard in 2025
Most of us have tried many of the home lab dashboards that are out there. I know I have been through the common list of them available. And there are…
Logward Is the Lightweight Syslog Server Every Home Lab Needs in 2025
I am constantly on the lookout for great tools that help to do things easier in the home lab environment and production than what I am doing currently. In doing…
Increase Usable RAM In Your Home Lab Without Buying More Memory
If you are like me you are doing double takes when it comes to RAM prices. It seems like over the past few weeks it has crept up on me…
10 Best Terminal Tools for Home Labs in 2025
Home lab tech is growing, morphing, and evolving rapidly like everything else in the industry. We have more automation, containerized apps, and more potential in our mini PCs than ever…
NixOS is the Best Home Lab OS You Haven’t Tried Yet
There are many great operating systems out there for home lab, including Ubuntu Server, Fedora, Debian, and others. But there is one that you may not have tried as of…
15 Docker Containers That Make Your Home Lab Instantly Better
There are certain docker containers that make a lot of sense to run in a home lab that just make life easier, better, and more efficient in the lab environment.…
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…
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”…