7 Home Lab Upgrades Under $100 That Actually Made a Huge Difference
I get it. Man things are expensive these days. At least currently, the days of simple “and cheap” upgrades like adding RAM or upgrading a hard drive are over for…
Tag: home server
I Stopped Deploying Containers Manually. This Changed My Home Lab
For a LONG time, my home lab has looked like what I imagine most other people’s labs look like. I had a mix of Docker Compose files and a few…
I Changed How I Access My Home Lab and This Fixed Everything
If you have spent any time at all in building out your home lab, one of the first things you try to decide how to do is remotely access your…
6 Home Lab Experiments Worth Trying This Weekend
For a lot of us, the weekend is really when the home lab comes alive. It is often the perfect time to try something new, break something safely, and learn…
5 Docker Features Most Home Labbers Are Not Using (But Should Be)
Docker is one of the most popular tools not only in the home lab, but in production environments that lets you run services quickly and easily. If you are like…
How I Fixed Heat Buildup in My 10-Inch Mini Rack with a Simple Cooling Mod
One of the tradeoffs of running a dense mini rack full of compact systems is heat. When you stack multiple high performance mini PCs into a small enclosed rack, even…
The Tools That Quietly Run My Home Lab Every Day in 2026
I have been through quite a transition with my home lab moving into 2026. Not just hardware. There has been a lot of changes on the hardware front, but in…
This Made My Mini PC Home Lab Feel Enterprise Grade: Intel vPro with AMT
One of the things that I really missed about going away from enterprise grade servers is the out of band management they have by default. Dell has iDRAC, Supermicro has…
5 Unexpected Ways to Save Power in Your Home Lab (Without Killing Performance)
Over the last few years my home lab has diminished in the footprint of the servers I have used to run my home lab workloads. For several years, I ran…
Jumbo Frames Broke My Proxmox Cluster and Here’s Why
If you have ever setup a production virtualization environment, including, VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox, and others, when it comes to networking and storage efficiency, jumbo frames always come into the conversation.…