home lab
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6 reasons a NAS is your Best Home Lab Investment
When it comes to spending our precious hard earned money on a home lab, you want to make your resources count. Many ask when getting into a home lab, what is the best investment and best “bang for the buck”.…
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Minisforum MS-A2 vs MS-01: Best Home Lab Server in 2025?
I have made no bones about the fact that I think the Minisforum MS-01 was the best home lab mini PC in 2024. I have (2) of them in a two-node VMware vSphere cluster, maybe Proxmox this year. However, when…
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Best 5 Home Server Projects to start learning Docker in 2025
I am a huge fan of projects to get started with using and becoming familiar with Docker. I think we will continue to see a shift to containerization from VMs due to the massive cost hikes from Broadcom. Most organizations…
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5 Tips to Get Started with a Home Lab
If you are looking at getting into running a home lab in 2025, hopefully this blog post will help those who are interested in getting into this really rewarding hobby to be successful with this as a project. I have…
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Home Labs are changing in 2025
Why do I say this? Well, I am like everyone and just monitoring and reading and hearing what others are talking about. There seem to be several things that many will be changing in their labs in 2025 and I…
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Docker Minecraft Server Home Lab Project
Often learning is more fun when you have something “fun” to learn for. If you are like me, you may enjoy spinning up new projects to learn various Docker skills and disciplines. However, having a home lab project that is…
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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 are, at the end of 2024. I want to take…
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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 growing pains and decision making for the home lab that…
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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 the phone book of the Internet and of computer networks…
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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 monitoring, including cAdvisor and Node Exporter which I have written…
