Home Lab Security: 5 Threats You’re Not Watching (But Should Be)
Running your home lab is a tremendously good resource for learning. It allows you to get your hands on many different technologies and experiment with these in a way that…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
