TrueNAS SCALE tried to do everything, so I gave it one job and moved the rest to Proxmox
…Related I ran my NAS in Proxmox and set up an SMB share so my LXCs can access it While it may sound weird, this setup works well when you have a…
…Related I ran my NAS in Proxmox and set up an SMB share so my LXCs can access it While it may sound weird, this setup works well when you have a…
…That distinction matters because smart home setups rarely stay small forever. You start with a few lights, then add sensors, dashboards, network monitoring, DNS services, backup jobs, and small utilities that make…
…My primary NAS handles all the storage-heavy media servers, while an N100 node is responsible for housing everything from reverse proxies and notification stations to smart home apps and monitoring dashboards…
…appear in one unified dashboard. I can quickly check device status, control them instantly, and organize everything by rooms to keep things simple. I intentionally kept the setup minimal. Instead of adding…
…Every wireless access point, every managed switch, every NAS, every IP camera that gets added to your network has it's own dashboard for configuration and maintenance, leading to a sprawling mess…
…The setup was simple enough, but things didn’t work for me right away. When I connected my MacBook to mobile data and tried accessing the Portainer dashboard via local IP, it…
…server setup. The numbers were surprising to me as well. For context, I repurposed an almost 8-year-old laptop as the head of the homelab and an old NAS mounted on…
…A lot of self-hosted setups grow over time. You might install one app for media, another for photo backups, maybe a few testing containers, and the usual reverse proxies, dashboards, and…
…The setup was similar to Immich. I deployed Nextcloud alongside its dependencies like DB and Redis via the Portainer stack with storage mounted from my NAS. File uploads and transfers on the…
…Editorial tasks lived in one dashboard, side projects in another. My ideas were scattered across note apps, and my inbox was getting buried under marketing threads. At some point, switching dashboards and…