The Storage Mistakes That Quietly Hurt Your Proxmox Performance
One of the things I have learned after running Proxmox clusters full time in the home lab is that storage problems can be more difficult to spot than something like…
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5 Proxmox Optimizations Worth Doing This Weekend
If you are anything like me, your Proxmox environment probably started simple and then slowly evolved over time. Maybe it began with a single node running a few VMs. Then…
Why Proxmox Wasn’t Reclaiming Storage Until I Fixed This Setting
Maybe you have been in this situation where you know you are deleting data inside your virtual machines running in Proxmox. You see the disk usage drop inside the guest…
Proxmox Networking Mistakes That Quietly Break Your Home Lab
On the surface of things, I really like Proxmox networking. It is straightforward and based around Linux bridges which are powerful in their own right. You get the default Linux…
I Tried This New Open Source Kubernetes Dashboard and It’s Surprisingly Good
I have been through a lot of the Kubernetes dashboards in my home lab and now that I am running my home lab “production” workloads on Kubernetes, I am keenly…
PatchMon V2 Finally Lets You Patch Your Servers From One Dashboard
I first wrote about Patchmon in its v1 form back at the end of 2025. It immediately stood out to me as something that filled a real gap in the…
I Can Finally See My Entire Home Lab and It Changed How I Troubleshoot
If you saw my earlier post a few weeks back covering Scanopy, you already know there are many different solutions out there that can scan your network and generate diagrams…
I Tried Traefik Manager in My Home Lab and It Makes Traefik Much Easier
If you have been running Traefik or you have thought about running Traefik, you probably fall into one of two schools of thought. You probably either love Traefik due to…
I Deployed My Own Flatcar Linux Update Server and Here’s What Actually Happened
I have been having a blast trying out container-specific operating systems. As of recently I have tried out a couple including Lightwhale and Flatcar. Both have been very good in…
I Installed Flatcar Linux on Proxmox and It’s Not Like a Normal Linux VM
There are many great Linux operating systems that I have used in the home lab for running containers. You may have seen my recent post on Lightwhale in my home…
