I Took Docker Container Monitoring to the Next Level With These 3 Tools
I feel like the pieces of Docker monitoring with recent tools brought online in the home lab has finally started to fall into place. For a long time in my…
Tag: home server
Things I Stopped Self-Hosting (And Why Cloud or Managed Won)
For a long while, especially when I first started with a home lab and self-hosting services, my answer to everything was to self-host it. This mindset I think can serve…
Why Zoraxy Might Be the Best Reverse Proxy for Home Labs
I am constantly on the lookout for new tools that can help with managing resources in the home lab. Reverse proxies are extremely important and useful since they allow you…
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…
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…