home lab
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DNS Failover for the Home Lab and Why You Need It
We have all heard the very common expression, “it is always DNS”. We joke about this often, but very often DNS is at the heart of issues with connectivity. Incorrect DNS records, reverse lookups, or just overall DNS connectivity issues…
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Minisforum BD790i X3D Motherboard Review with AMD 7945HX3D and PCIe Gen 5
Minisforum sent over another very powerful motherboard they have just come out with, the Minisforum BD790i X3D. This board is really geared towards graphics performance and has the specs to help prove that it is well suited for this use…
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Big Spring Home Lab Sale: Beats Pro, Mini PCs, 10 gig Network Switches, NVMe, Monitors, and more!
In case you haven’t heard, Amazon is having their Big Spring Sale starting today that is seeing huge discounts across the board for many of the items that we are interested in for leveling up our home labs. These include…
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How I Deployed a Self-Hosting Stack with Docker Swarm & MicroCeph
I have been on a journey to try out various self-hosting stacks in the home lab and one of the configurations that has been a great platform for learning and selfhosting has been Docker Swarm with Microceph. This combination of…
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Automating Your Home Lab with Ansible, Terraform, and CI/CD Pipelines
There has never been a better time to automate your home lab with tools like Ansible, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines. With the AI tools and help we have today and all the resources on available on the web, automation is…
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Optimize SSD and NVMe Storage for Virtualization in Your Home Lab
When building out your home lab, the storage layer is arguably one of the most important. Choosing the right storage solution is key to having a platform that can run virtual machines and containers effectively. Traditional hard drives (spindles) are…
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Add NVMe slots to your Proxmox Server with Hardware and Bifurcation Mods!
So I have been doing all kinds of modding and strategizing on my Proxmox server and trying different things on my second Proxmox server build. Since I am using the Minisforum BD795i SE, this is a great board, but limited…
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PCIE Bifurcation and Why You Need It in Your Home Server
Building and running your own home server is one of the best ways to learn and allows ones to experiment and learn technologies that they might not get to learn in a production environment. When you are building your home…
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Core Performance Boost Setting: Speed vs Power Consumption in Home Lab
I have built up a couple of Ryzen 9 7945HX home server builds over the past few weeks and have experimented a bit with the BIOS settings and things that ones may be interested in for home lab purposes. There…
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Home Server Build 2025: Run Proxmox or VMware ESXi 16 Cores and 128GB RAM
I have been having fun building Proxmox servers with motherboards from Minisforum. I hadn’t really considered getting back into building servers as for literally the past 10 years I have been buying off the shelf servers from Supermicro for home…
