7 Home Lab Services I Always Give a Static IP Address
DHCP is one of the services that just makes network management much easier. You don’t have to worry when you connect a laptop, smartphone or some other device to your…
Tag: home server
Install Proxmox ARM64 on a Raspberry Pi 5 This Weekend
Well, if you saw my post a couple of days ago, we had the news released that Proxmox Server Solutions was releasing Proxmox VE Server as a fully supported ARM64…
The 9 Things My Home Lab Automates While I’m Sleeping
When I think about one of the things that I am most proud of in my home lab in 2026 it is the level of automation and “self sufficiency” that…
The Best Free Home Lab Tools I Discovered in 2026
Every year, I come across dozens of new open source projects that I stumble on or ones may write me about or mention in a comment to try out. Most…
The 8 Hypervisors I’d Actually Recommend in Late 2026
So I think, in my opinion we have an even more rounded out list for virtualization platforms heading into late 2026. The list below is definitely an opinionated list, but…
The Docker Networking Mistakes I Still See in Home Labs (And How I Avoid Them)
Docker is an amazing tool that can be used both in production and in our home labs. I am a huge proponent of containerizing what makes sense. In the day…
The systemd Services and Timers I Use in My Immutable Linux Home Lab
For the past several months now, I have shifted my home lab to immutable Linux distros like Flatcar which has changed how I think about installing software and things like…
How I Organize My Entire Home Lab So I Can Actually Find Anything
I have been reflecting on how far things have come in my home lab and ironically, I feel like I am more organized now more than ever before, even though…
The Reverse Proxy Mistakes I Still See in Home Labs (And How I Avoid Them)
Reverse proxies are one of the most critical pieces of infrastructure once you stand up a home lab and start learning containers and hosting things in those containers. You quickly…
I Thought My DNS Was Fine Until I Started Monitoring This
I am all about monitoring things in my home lab and with DNS being so important, if there is one service to monitor, this is it. DNS is at the…
