Chasing the perfect home lab is why yours never works
…There is still a real case for refining and rebuilding often Experimentation is part of why home labs exist To be fair, a home lab isn’t supposed to be a frozen…
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I stopped logging into my homelab dashboard after connecting these 4 MCP servers to Claude Code
1d agoI replaced three Docker containers with one, and my networking stack finally stopped feeling heavy
4d agoYour smart home doesn't need Matter — a local Zigbee network is faster and lasts longer
5d agoI spent hours troubleshooting my NAS until electrical tape fixed what software couldn't
1w agoNAS makers are slowly admitting people want home servers, not just storage boxes
…Subreddits like r/selfhosted and r/homelab have accumulated substantial user bases, and the quality of the documentation, guides, and troubleshooting resources available has improved in step. What used to require either…
One tiny change made my local LLMs more useful than ChatGPT for real work
…For example, if I wanted to use local models when troubleshooting random home lab problems, I could toss all the documentation I’ve built over the years into the LLM provider and…
I stopped paying Heroku for my app deployments after discovering this self-hosted alternative
…Or, if I didn’t already have productivity-centric tools scattered across my Proxmox nodes, I'd use Coolify to run n8n , Joplin, Homebox, BentoPDF, SearXNG, Syncthing , and other must-have FOSS…
I connected Claude Code to my home server through MCP, and now I manage my entire lab by talking to it
…homelab server. All services were deployed as separate Docker containers through Portainer. Jellyfin, Immich, and Nextcloud handled media, photos, and file services. Pi-hole, Cloudflared, and Omada Controller handled the network and…
Self-hosting freed me from the OS lock-in trap (and made my devices clutter-free)
…Plus, setting up (and more importantly, troubleshooting) FOSS services has taught me a lot about containerization and the Linux CLI. But the most underrated feature of self-hosting is that it got…
A single mini PC replaced my Raspberry Pi cluster and nearly cut my power use in half
…For an always-on home lab, one system wins anyway Lower friction matters more than theoretical hardware flexibility That said, the more practical my home lab became, the weaker the cluster argument…
Your Proxmox 8 server stops getting security updates in August, and upgrading to PVE 9 isn't straightforward
…and the same applies on the home lab front. Except, you’ll have to be extra cautious, as you might end up with broken network services and irrecoverable virtual guests if things…
I tested 3 local LLMs on my RTX 4070 Ti for real work — only one earned a permanent spot
…Instead of recommending ambitious infrastructure projects like self-hosted search engines, it focused on services a homelab user could realistically deploy next. The model acknowledged complexity, maintenance burden, and networking requirements. That…
I started my home lab with a full-size PC, and now I can't imagine using anything else
…It's the ability to troubleshoot when something breaks, and any home lab enthusiast knows that stuff breaks all the time. This is one of the best arguments for going with a…