My entire home lab cost less than a new GPU, and it does more for me too
…A shiny new GPU can seem like the golden goose, but what if I told you that there's a potential upgrade to your entire setup that costs half as much while…
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I stopped paying Heroku for my app deployments after discovering this self-hosted alternative
…dev tools and integrations available in Coolify, its setup process is fairly simple. If you use Linux-based systems for your home server experiments as I do, you can run curl -fsSL…
Dual-booting Windows and Linux stopped making sense once my hardware got good enough
…Related 4 reasons you should embrace virtual machines instead of jumping straight to dual-booting Give VMs a try Isolation and security OS won’t meddle with your machines When you boot…
I let two local LLMs fight over how to optimize a Linux VM, and they destroyed it instead
…It ran apt purge against ubuntu-server and cloud-init on a fresh Ubuntu VM. Gemma described that approach as "scorched-earth policy" and went looking for a way to undo it…
My NAS has been a backup server, Jellyfin archive, and file storage for years, and it could still do so much more
…However, my current setup involves automated Kopia scripts that sync essential files on daily drivers with my NAS. Ever since TrueNAS improved its virtualization capabilities, I began using my storage server as…
I almost bought a used Nvidia Tesla GPU for my home lab, then I read what owners actually deal with
…The moment you want to use it as the primary GPU in any non-server setup, you need a second GPU just to drive the screen. If you wanted to be a…
Tailscale's latest personal plan changes make it easier than ever to share your home lab with friends and family
…That’s a huge development, as you can add individual server nodes and even VMs that you want to share with other users to your tailnet, and tweak the ACL rules to…
I set up a Tailscale exit node at home, and it's more useful than just exposing services
…When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, his interests include…
I started my home lab with a full-size PC, and now I can't imagine using anything else
…everything can be repurposed into a home server! A full tower can grow with you ATX gives you a lot more routes for upgrading and evolving A home lab doesn't truly…
Stop treating the Raspberry Pi 5 as a smart home hub — it's actually built for something bigger
…those small jobs without turning the setup into a rack-scale science project. This does not mean the Raspberry Pi 5 should replace a real server or NAS. It’s still a…