Most home servers are wildly overbuilt, and the N100 proved it to me
Jeff Butts May 15, 2026, 11:00 AM EDT Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system…
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I switched from Proxmox to its FreeBSD counterpart on my home server – here's how it went
…and TrueNAS storage rig, I love tinkering with other virtualization platforms, container runtimes, and NAS-centric distros in my spare time. But since I’ve only ever used Linux and Windows (technically…
Stop ignoring your spare PCIe x1 slot — it's more useful than half the upgrades you buy
Tanveer Singh Apr 11, 2026, 7:00 AM EDT After a 7-year corporate stint, Tanveer found his love for writing and tech too much to resist. An MBA in Marketing and…
Your home lab probably falls apart for the wrong reason, and these tools fix it
Jeff Butts Apr 20, 2026, 4:30 PM EDT Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system…
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My Windows PC is unusable without these third-party tools, and Microsoft doesn't care
Tanveer Singh Mar 21, 2026, 12:30 PM EDT After a 7-year corporate stint, Tanveer found his love for writing and tech too much to resist. An MBA in Marketing and…
Don't swap Docker for Proxmox's OCI support yet — the missing pieces matter more than the promise
Jeff Butts Apr 22, 2026, 5:31 PM EDT Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system…
I self-hosted my own Cloudflare Workers replacement, and it's incredibly simple
…reverse proxy stack. Compared to Cloudflare Workers, the biggest difference is everything around the runtime. With Cloudflare, you get global edge deployment, automatic scaling, built-in KV storage, and integrations like Durable…
I replaced Cloudflare Tunnel with Pangolin, and finally own my whole ingress path
…Now a Computing Writer at XDA, Shekhar leverages his deep background in NAS, storage solutions, and PC internals to help readers master their tech. Sign in to your XDA account Whether a…
I paid for Google AI Pro expecting one subscription to replace three — here's why I'm still using all of them
…fine I keep comparing it to Claude and it keeps losing Gemini 3.1 Pro is competent. It handles technical explanations well, processes large context windows without choking, and rarely hallucinates compared…
The ESP32 quietly became the most important chip in my smart home
Samir Makwana Mar 26, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT Samir Makwana is a technology journalist and editor from India since past 18 years and his work appears on MakeUseOf, HowToGeek, GSMArena, BGR…