home lab
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5 Powerful but Cheap AI Workstations You Didn’t Know You Could Get (Perfect for Your Home Lab!)
I have really been looking at AI for the home lab and the hardware needed to run local language models (LLMs) successfully and in a speedy way. There is no question that GPUs are the heart of the solution as…
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5 Unexpected Ways to Use AI in Your Home Lab in 2025
AI has been one of the most revolutionary technologies that has come about in our lifetime. It is continuing to change the world around us as we know it and the capabilities of technology tools that we know and use.…
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Install the New VMware ESXi Free Edition Custom ISOs and Limitations
So you may be like me and still wondering if this is some kind of parallel universe where Broadcom reversed their decision to pull the free VMware ESXi hypervisor. But if you have been following my latest blog posts and…
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How to Document Your Home Lab (The Right Way)
It is something that we all hate to do, I know I do. But, it is something that you will always be glad that you have – documentation. Even with our very “in flux” home labs, documentation is a great…
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Best Home File Server Storage Options in 2025
One of the most basic types of resources that most want to self-host is file storage. File storage in general includes anything and everything that you might need to keep around or access for personal files. This can also include…
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Sync Pi-Hole Settings and Blocklists between Instances with Nebula Sync
If you were like me, when you saw the Gravity Sync project was archived and would have no future development, this was a bummer as I have relied on Gravity sync for quite some time now to sync Pi-Hole instances.…
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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…
