Your WireGuard setup is harder than it needs to be, and WireGUI fixes it
…4 reasons you need to use WireGuard instead of OpenVPN for connecting to your home lab remotely If you have a home lab and want to connect to it remotely, WireGuard is…
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Your smart home devices will outlast the companies that made them if you ditch the cloud
3d agoWindows has a built-in remote desktop tool most people ignore, and it saved me from TeamViewer
6d agoI ditched Synology's QuickConnect for Tailscale, and remote access finally feels effortless
1w agoI don't expose my home server anymore: I let Tailscale do the scary part
1w agoI built a Home Assistant automation that saves power daily, and nobody in my family even knows it exists
…The company offers Home Assistant Cloud, a subscription service that provides easy remote access and voice assistant integration while funding ongoing development. Not quite. The company is called Nabu Casa, founded in…
Most network problems aren't your internet—they're your router's dirty secret
…Your router might be hiding secrets from you, and without access to those features, you'd never know. Related Stop blaming your ISP: most home networks are failing you in ways speed…
I set up a Tailscale exit node at home, and it's more useful than just exposing services
…But as someone who manages everything from 3-2-1 backup nodes to Home Assistant instances in my family home, I consider my remote access tools just as important as my dashboards…
LXC updates in Proxmox aren't hard — managing 20 of them at scale is another story
…true The plugin SSH's into Proxmox and runs the pct updates from the server, so you don't have to worry about SSH or remote access being available in each container…
Proxmox Backup Server is the boring home lab upgrade that made me less afraid to break things
…Backup Server adds more recovery provisions to my PVE home lab. Live restoration, for example, is extremely handy when I want to access large dev VMs (especially those running the bloatware king…
My NAS has been a backup server, Jellyfin archive, and file storage for years, and it could still do so much more
…everything for home server users My NAS doesn’t just house backups from everyday devices It also receives snapshots from my home servers and forwards everything to a remote rig As a…
Home labbers say to ditch your ISP router, but the Fritz Box 7530 has WireGuard, dynamic DNS, and even a media server
…A friend of mine recently set up TrueNAS in his home and is using DynDNS and WireGuard for remote access, all managed by his Fritz Box 7530 AX. It's a surprisingly…
6 Jellyfin settings that transformed my media server from frustrating to genuinely premium
…Remote access through Tailscale The easiest way I've found to take Jellyfin anywhere I'm not going to deny that remote access was truly the one thing that kept self-hosted…
Self-hosting a password manager sounds secure until you're locked out at the airport
…Remote access is a burden to set up A convenience only for the knowledgeable To avoid the anxiety of exposing a password manager to the open web, many homelab enthusiasts take the…