Your home lab's biggest mistake might be running everything in LXCs
…The mistake is treating them as the default home for everything just because they’re neat. Proxmox Proxmox is a powerful home lab platform, but make sure you're using its features…
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I turned an old Android phone into a home server, and it outperformed my Raspberry Pi
3d agoThis $44 managed switch handles 2.5Gb speeds, and it's the upgrade your home network actually needs
4d agoHome Assistant finally has an AI tool worth the complexity, if you can get past the onboarding
1w agoRepurposing an old PC as a NAS seemed smart until I checked the power bill
1w agoI gave my NAS actual jobs beyond storage, and it automated half my PC maintenance
…Additionally, I use my NAS as a backup server. As someone whose main computer is a Mac, I would schedule connecting a backup hard drive to my computer every weekend so that…
I ditched Plex, Google Photos, and iCloud for self-hosted alternatives, and Pangolin made it actually work
…Low idle power consumption is the most important factor for a 24/7 machine. High core counts, gaming GPUs, and massive RAM are rarely needed for typical home server workloads, and they…
I stopped trusting my router's diagnostics after my Raspberry Pi found what it missed
…While I had enabled backup on my smartphones, tablet, and computers, I forgot that there is no specific timing or duration cap on them. Regular backups on most of my devices took…
I stopped adding hardware to my home lab when I realized fewer moving parts meant more uptime
…A quieter lab is usually a better lab A good home lab doesn’t need to look complicated to be powerful. It needs to solve the problems you actually have, recover cleanly…
Vaultwarden has been running on a Raspberry Pi Zero in a drawer for a year, and it's the most underrated thing I host
…It can even draw a full watt while running the tool and can work with a power bank during a power disruption. I have a home inverter that powers some of the…
Chasing the perfect home lab is why yours never works
…my home lab like a problem that could be solved if I just made one more smart upgrade. There was always a better layout, a cleaner dashboard, a more elegant backup flow…
This is the best self-hosted alternative to MinIO, and I can't believe everyone isn't using it
…From backups and media storage to automation and dev environments, object storage quietly powers a lot of that productivity. For years, MinIO has been the default choice for S3-compatible storage. But…
Your NAS is wasted if it is just a dumb storage box — you can do a lot more with it
…You may not need a home lab right now, but having a NAS makes you prepared for when you will. Many NAS devices aren't powerful enough to double up as home…
I built the weirdest possible NAS from hardware I already owned, and it works surprisingly well
…Sign in to your XDA account Building a Network-Attached Storage server from old hardware is the best way to repurpose systems that would otherwise gather dust into reliable backup solutions. While…