Docker Is Slowly Filling Up Your Home Lab Disk Space (And the Tool I Use to Fix It)
Well, it is happening, there is another casualty of the AI boom and that is hard drives. Just in the last couple of days, news of hard drive price increases…
Tag: home server
I Now Manage My DNS Server from Git (and It Changed Everything)
I have been writing a lot about DNS lately as I have been trying out a lot of different solutions. Recently, I took the new version of Technitium for a…
Stop Drawing Network Diagrams Manually Scanopy Does It for You
Keeping your network diagrams up to date can be a chore. You already probably know how this story ends. You start out having good intentions and use something like draw.io…
12 Proxmox Host Tweaks Worth Doing This Weekend
Most of us are looking for low-hanging fruit for optimizations you can do that get quick results that are beneficial. Below is a weekend-friendly set of optimizations that will provide…
LoggiFly Is the Docker Log Alerting Tool I Didn’t Know I Needed
Docker logs are definitely one of the first places I look when troubleshooting issues with containers. It is often where you will find the root cause of the issue that…
10 Small Changes That Made My Home Lab Far More Reliable
When it comes to improving and “upgrading” your home lab, most of us starting thinking about the hardware side of things. More memory (haha, rolling eyes at prices), faster storage,…
9 Home Lab Services I Would Deploy First on a Fresh Proxmox Install
When I build a brand new Proxmox host or cluster, I don’t start with deploying everything and the kitchen sink. I focus on getting a small set of home lab…
Stop Using Pi-Hole Sync Tools and Use Technitium DNS Clustering Instead
Having redundant DNS servers in a home lab is a great idea and helps to shore up one of the single points of failure that we can have in the…
PatchMon Is the Linux Update GUI I’ve Been Wanting for My Home Lab
An aspect of maintaining a production environment or home lab environment that I have personally never really enjoyed is patching. However, it is one of those necessary evils when you…
Ultimate Home Lab Starter Stack for 2026 (Key Recommendations)
If you were able to wipe the slate clean and start your home lab journey fresh today for the beginning of 2026, what would your starter stack look like? I…