home lab
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home lab
Killer Home Lab Projects You Can Build in a Weekend
I think that learning in the home lab is best accomplished by having your learning be project-based. When you have a project that actually benefits you in the home lab environment, it accelerates your learning as you are actually attacking…
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Top 5 Tools I Use to Manage My Home Lab in 2025
In running a home lab, you will spin up numerous resources, including containers, virtual machines, networks, and many other types of components that comprise self-hosting your services. Certain tools make managing all of these different components and resources much easier.…
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5 Reasons Proxmox Is the Ultimate Home Lab Hypervisor in 2025
There has certainly been a major shift in virtualization technologies over the past year or so. So many have been fleeing VMware for other hypervisors. It seems like Proxmox has become the new favorite in the community and 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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Containers
Why I Started Documenting My Docker Containers and What I Include
Running Docker containers and learning them is one of the best things you can do for your IT learning and career in 2025. Containerized technologies are everywhere. They are simple, effective, efficient, and they make self-hosting extremely powerful. However, they…
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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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Mini PC & Server
Mini ITX PC Build Guide for 2025
Mini ITX motherboards I would say are gaining popularity even though they have been a favorite for a while now with PC builders who want to build very small, compact systems. I think in 2025, there have never been better…
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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…
