I stopped throwing out old hardware after discovering Proxmox
…Contrary to what you might think, you can build a reliable home lab for your self-hosting and experimentation needs with outdated PCs, cheap thin clients, and low-end NAS units. All…
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I always tweak my Proxmox host's settings before spinning up a single VM or LXC
…virtual machines, I can use my PVE-powered systems as hybrid project-building workstations and self-hosting hubs. But no matter what version I use, Proxmox’s default settings are far from…
Mini PC clusters are silently replacing rack servers in home labs, and I finally understand why
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My homelab monitoring broke silently until I switched from SMS to ntfy in an afternoon
…Everything that was Docker deployable and self-hostable on my own server was much better than a premium cloud service. Ntfy had native support on my current monitoring service, Uptime Kuma. And…
I turned this $55 Raspberry Pi into the ultimate streaming device
…Related How I replaced all these streaming services with one self-hosted app Cutting the online streaming cord with this one free self-hosted app. Experimenting with the streaming stack on Pi…
Synology felt like an appliance until I built a custom NAS with TrueNAS and realized what I was missing
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My homelab SSD was silently failing, and one monitoring tool caught it before the other
…SMART stands for Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology. While initially it was developed to detect mechanical wear on HDDs, in SSDs, it focuses on flash memory endurance and error correction. It…
My NAS ran out of space, but the real problem wasn't the size of my drives
…I just so happened to use the NAS as one giant external hard drive with the ability to run some self-hosted services. My first port of call was to completely change…
Self-hosted LLM took my personal knowledge management system to the next level
…02 / 8 Self-Hosting What is Ollama, frequently used in self-hosted LLM PKM setups? A A vector database optimized for document embeddings B A tool that lets you run large language…
I turned my old phone into a security camera that saves to my home server for free
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