HomeLab Starter
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Site-to-Site VPN with WireGuard Between Home Labs
Connect two homelab networks with a WireGuard site-to-site VPN. Covers configuration on both ends, routing between subnets, persistent connections, and firewall rules for transparent cross-site access.
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Documenting Your Home Lab Setup Effectively
Practical approaches to documenting your homelab — what to document, where to keep it, tools that work, and how to build a documentation habit that survives your inevitable late-night changes.
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Best Home Lab Dashboards: Homarr vs Dashy vs Homer vs Homepage
Compare the most popular home lab dashboard tools — Homarr, Dashy, Homer, and Homepage — with setup guides and recommendations for different use cases.
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SSL Certificate Management for Your Home Lab
A practical guide to managing SSL certificates in your homelab — Let's Encrypt with DNS challenges, internal CAs, wildcard certs, cert-manager, and automated renewal.
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Running Home Assistant in Your Home Lab
A complete guide to running Home Assistant in your homelab — installation methods, Zigbee and Z-Wave setup, automations, dashboards, MQTT, ESPHome, and how it compares to OpenHAB.
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ext4 vs XFS vs Btrfs vs ZFS: Choosing a Linux Filesystem for Your Homelab
A practical comparison of the four major Linux filesystems for homelab use — ext4, XFS, Btrfs, and ZFS — covering performance, features, reliability, and when to use each one.
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Nginx Proxy Manager: The Easy Reverse Proxy for Your Home Lab
Set up Nginx Proxy Manager in Docker to route traffic, manage SSL certificates, and organize access to all your home lab services with a visual UI.
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Setting Up WireGuard VPN to Access Your Home Lab Remotely
A step-by-step guide to installing WireGuard VPN on a Linux server for secure remote access to your home lab. Covers server setup, client configuration, DNS routing, and split tunneling.
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Storage Replication with DRBD for High Availability
Set up DRBD to replicate block storage between two homelab servers for high availability. Covers installation, resource configuration, dual-primary mode, split-brain recovery, and integration with clustering.
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Unraid for Home Lab Use: The Complete Guide
A thorough guide to using Unraid in your homelab — the parity system, cache pools, Docker and VM support, Community Applications, and when to choose Unraid over alternatives.
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Docker vs Podman for Your Home Lab: A Practical Comparison
An honest comparison of Docker and Podman for home lab use — rootless containers, daemon vs daemonless, Compose vs pods, and when to pick each one.
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Tailscale for Home Lab: Zero-Config Remote Access
How to use Tailscale to access your home lab from anywhere without port forwarding, dynamic DNS, or firewall configuration. Covers setup, subnet routing, exit nodes, ACLs, and when to choose Tailscale over WireGuard.
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Buying Used Dell PowerEdge Servers: What to Look For
A practical guide to buying used Dell PowerEdge servers for your home lab — which models to target, what specs to check, where to buy, and what to avoid.
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ZFS Storage Pool Setup: The Complete Home Lab Guide
A practical guide to setting up ZFS storage pools in your home lab — pool types, RAID-Z levels, scrubs, snapshots, and real-world configuration examples.