HomeLab Starter
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Hyperconverged Infrastructure in Your Home Lab: Proxmox + Ceph
A practical guide to building hyperconverged infrastructure at home with Proxmox and Ceph — clustering, storage tiering, hardware requirements, and honest cost analysis.
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Proxmox VE Clustering for High Availability
Set up a Proxmox VE cluster with high availability for your homelab. Covers cluster creation, joining nodes, fencing, HA groups, shared storage requirements, and live migration of VMs and containers.
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ECC RAM in Your Home Lab: Do You Actually Need It?
An honest look at ECC memory for home lab use. What ECC actually does, when it genuinely matters, when it doesn't, and whether the extra cost is justified for your setup.
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Managing Your Home Lab with Terraform and Proxmox
A practical guide to infrastructure as code for home labs — define VMs, storage, and networking in Terraform using the Proxmox provider.
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Authelia: Single Sign-On and 2FA for Your Home Lab
Set up Authelia for SSO and two-factor authentication in your homelab. Covers reverse proxy integration, access policies, OIDC, and comparison with Authentik and Keycloak.
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Setting Up a Proper Server Rack at Home
A practical guide to choosing and setting up a server rack for your homelab. Covers rack sizes, depth considerations, cooling, cable management, PDUs, shelves, and keeping noise and heat under control.
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Ceph Distributed Storage for Home Labs
Deploy Ceph distributed storage in your homelab with cephadm. Covers minimum hardware requirements, pool configuration, CephFS and RBD, performance tuning, and whether Ceph is right for your setup.
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10 Useful Raspberry Pi Projects for Your Home Lab
Practical Raspberry Pi projects that actually earn their keep in a home lab. From network-wide ad blocking to monitoring dashboards, these are the Pi projects worth your time.
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Kubernetes in Your Homelab: K3s and K0s Setup Guide
A practical guide to running lightweight Kubernetes in your homelab with K3s and K0s — when to use it over Docker Compose, cluster setup, essential tools, and real-world deployment patterns.
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Upgrading to 10GbE Networking: Is It Worth It for Your Home Lab?
A practical cost analysis of 10 Gigabit Ethernet for home labs — what hardware you need, what it actually costs, and when the upgrade makes sense.
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Self-Hosting Your Photos with Immich
How to set up Immich as a self-hosted Google Photos replacement. Covers Docker deployment, mobile backups, ML features, storage planning, and migrating from Google Photos.
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GPU Passthrough in Proxmox: Gaming, AI, and Transcoding in VMs
A step-by-step guide to GPU passthrough in Proxmox VMs — IOMMU configuration, VFIO setup, troubleshooting common issues, and practical use cases for gaming, AI workloads, and media transcoding.
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Self-Hosted Productivity Apps: Nextcloud, BookStack, Vikunja, and Paperless-ngx
Deploy and configure the best self-hosted productivity apps for your homelab — file sync with Nextcloud, documentation with BookStack, task management with Vikunja, and document management with Paperless-ngx.
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Home Lab Budget Builds: $100, $300, and $500 Setups
Three home lab build guides at different price points — from a $100 starter to a $500 powerhouse. Real hardware recommendations with specs and use cases.
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Power Monitoring with Smart PDUs and Home Assistant
Track your homelab's power consumption with smart PDUs and smart plugs, then integrate with Home Assistant for dashboards, automation, and cost tracking.
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Mini PCs for Your Home Lab: A Practical Buyer's Guide
Comparing Intel NUC, Beelink, MinisForum, HP EliteDesk Mini, and Lenovo ThinkCentre Tiny for homelab use. CPU, RAM, power, noise, and pricing breakdowns.
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Configuring Prometheus Alertmanager for Home Lab Monitoring
Set up Alertmanager alongside Prometheus to get real alerts for your homelab — covering installation, routing, grouping, silencing, and integrations with Discord, email, and Telegram.
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ZFS vs Btrfs: Choosing the Right Filesystem for Your Homelab Storage
An in-depth comparison of ZFS and Btrfs for homelab storage. Covers data integrity, RAID configurations, snapshots, performance characteristics, and which to choose for NAS, VMs, and containers.
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Self-Hosted Git with Gitea: A Complete Setup Guide
Set up your own Git hosting with Gitea or Forgejo — from Docker Compose installation and configuration to HTTPS, SSH access, repository mirroring, CI/CD, backups, and performance tuning.
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VLAN Segmentation: Isolating Your Home Lab Network
A practical guide to using VLANs to segment your home lab network — why VLANs matter, what hardware you need, and step-by-step setup with managed switches and pfSense/OPNsense.