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The NixOS Tweaks I Wish I’d Started Using Sooner in my Home Lab
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The NixOS Tweaks I Wish I’d Started Using Sooner in my Home Lab

I have been moving heavily into immutable server operating systems especially for hosting my containerized home lab resources. Flatcar has been my OS of choice lately for container hosts. But…

by Brandon LeeJuly 9, 2026July 9, 2026
Why I Stopped Treating Docker Containers Like Tiny Virtual Machines
Containers

Why I Stopped Treating Docker Containers Like Tiny Virtual Machines

I think everyone goes through this shift as they transition their home labs from virtual machines over to containers. You tend to approach containers exactly the same way as you…

by Brandon LeeJuly 8, 2026July 8, 2026
The Home Lab Projects That Taught Me the Most
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The Home Lab Projects That Taught Me the Most

There are some home lab projects that teach you a few things, and are great to incorporate. However, there are some projects that looking back on my journey, really taught…

by Brandon LeeJuly 7, 2026July 7, 2026
I Tried This New Proxmox Inventory and Auditing Tool and I Was Impressed
Proxmox

I Tried This New Proxmox Inventory and Auditing Tool and I Was Impressed

I see so many tools listed and presented that are said to solve a problem in the Proxmox realm. I have tried many different tools over the past couple of…

by Brandon LeeJuly 6, 2026July 6, 2026
The Home Lab Defaults I Never Skip
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The Home Lab Defaults I Never Skip

One of the things that sometimes gets overlooked with home labbing is that good defaults matter more than we might give them credit for. When I started building out lab…

by Brandon LeeJuly 4, 2026July 4, 2026
The Weirdest Home Lab Network Problems I’ve Actually Run Into
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The Weirdest Home Lab Network Problems I’ve Actually Run Into

There are definitely some home lab problems that are easier to diagnose. If you have a service you know about that crashes, a container that exits for some reason or…

by Brandon LeeJuly 3, 2026July 3, 2026
The More I Learn, the Simpler My Home Lab Becomes
home lab

The More I Learn, the Simpler My Home Lab Becomes

If you’ve followed my home lab journey over the past several years, you’ve probably noticed something interesting. My current production environment actually looks much less impressive than it used to.…

by Brandon LeeJuly 2, 2026July 2, 2026
I Found a New Way to Manage Proxmox Without Opening the Web UI
Proxmox

I Found a New Way to Manage Proxmox Without Opening the Web UI

I am always on the lookout for new and interesting tools that allow us to manage our Proxmox servers and clusters more efficiently and overall, a little easier. I stumbled…

by Brandon LeeJuly 1, 2026July 1, 2026
I Thought Docker Would Restart Unhealthy Containers. I Was Missing One Tool.
Containers

I Thought Docker Would Restart Unhealthy Containers. I Was Missing One Tool.

If you are like me, for the longest time, I just assumed that Docker was very smart in the way it recovers unhealthy containers. And, to be fair, there is…

by Brandon LeeJune 30, 2026June 30, 2026
The Home Lab Services I Never Stop Monitoring (And Why They Matter)
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The Home Lab Services I Never Stop Monitoring (And Why They Matter)

One of the core monitoring components of my home lab is uptime monitoring. In other words, are my apps, services, web resources, etc up and running? Is anything down? I…

by Brandon LeeJune 29, 2026June 29, 2026

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