…Cheap unmanaged switches have their uses Not every part of your network needs max speed If the lab is mostly Home Assistant, Pi-hole, a couple of Docker containers, and Jellyfin streaming…
…Then, I ran docker compose up -d to get Pinchflat up and running, before using the VM’s IP address and port 8945 to access the app’s web UI. After I…
…There was always just a little too much friction between wanting to watch something and actually getting there. Moving Jellyfin onto the NAS and taking advantage of its native Docker support pulled…
…Proxmox for virtualization , a few VMs, LXC containers, Immich for managing photos, Jellyfin for streaming media, a file server, and Docker containers like Caddy, Redis, Jenkins, and others. The NVMe enables all…
…Instead of installing everything directly, I decided to use Docker. It gave me a clean separation of services and was easy to manage, update, and remove. Since Docker containers share the host…
…The key advantage is isolation — containers bundle their own dependencies and are separated from the host OS and each other. Docker doesn't inherently make apps faster, back up your data, or…
…It'll emulate a Synology NAS and load everything accordingly. After playing around with Xpenology on Proxmox and using it for storing most of our data to see how it would handle…
…For transcoding specifically, the NVIDIA plus Jellyfin combination in Docker is probably the most documented GPU configuration in the self-hosted community. It's not plug-and-play, but it's close…
…I have separate pages for Proxmox, Pi-hole, Home Assistant, Jellyfin, Uptime Kuma, and whatever I happened to spin up during a productive weekend. Each one is useful on its own, but…
…Related I kept waiting for Docker to fail, but nineteen containers on bare metal proved Proxmox wrong The hypervisor I never actually needed. And again, you have the benefit of performance with…
