5 Proxmox Optimizations Worth Doing This Weekend
If you are anything like me, your Proxmox environment probably started simple and then slowly evolved over time. Maybe it began with a single node running a few VMs. Then…
Tag: home lab
Why Proxmox Wasn’t Reclaiming Storage Until I Fixed This Setting
Maybe you have been in this situation where you know you are deleting data inside your virtual machines running in Proxmox. You see the disk usage drop inside the guest…
Proxmox Networking Mistakes That Quietly Break Your Home Lab
On the surface of things, I really like Proxmox networking. It is straightforward and based around Linux bridges which are powerful in their own right. You get the default Linux…
I Tried This New Open Source Kubernetes Dashboard and It’s Surprisingly Good
I have been through a lot of the Kubernetes dashboards in my home lab and now that I am running my home lab “production” workloads on Kubernetes, I am keenly…
PatchMon V2 Finally Lets You Patch Your Servers From One Dashboard
I first wrote about Patchmon in its v1 form back at the end of 2025. It immediately stood out to me as something that filled a real gap in the…
I Tried New Proxmox Tools in May 2026 and Only a Few Made the Cut
If you have been running Proxmox in your home lab for any amount of time, you already know the ecosystem has been growing fast and rightly so. There are more…
I Can Finally See My Entire Home Lab and It Changed How I Troubleshoot
If you saw my earlier post a few weeks back covering Scanopy, you already know there are many different solutions out there that can scan your network and generate diagrams…
I Tried Traefik Manager in My Home Lab and It Makes Traefik Much Easier
If you have been running Traefik or you have thought about running Traefik, you probably fall into one of two schools of thought. You probably either love Traefik due to…
I Use Packer to Automate Ubuntu Server 26.04 on Proxmox and It Saves Me Hours
I am a huge fan of automation in the home lab and have long had pipelines running that automate deployments of virtual machines in my VMware vSphere and now Proxmox…
I Replaced My Monitoring Stack and This Just Works in My Home Lab
I am always on the lookout for new and better tools for monitoring in the home lab environment to keep an eye on self-hosted apps and services. There are a…