HomeLab Starter
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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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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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Cloudflare Tunnel: Expose Home Lab Services Without Port Forwarding
Set up Cloudflare Tunnel to securely expose your homelab services to the internet. Covers installation, access policies, custom domains, and comparison with VPN alternatives.
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Home Lab Security Hardening: A Practical Guide
Harden your home lab against real threats — SSH lockdown, firewall rules, automatic updates, network segmentation, secrets management, and common mistakes to avoid.
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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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Self-Hosted Password Management: Vaultwarden and Passbolt
Deploy a self-hosted password manager with Vaultwarden (Bitwarden-compatible) or Passbolt. Covers Docker deployment, HTTPS setup, browser extensions, mobile apps, emergency access, and backup strategies.
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Homelab Disaster Recovery: Planning, Testing, and Automation
Build a disaster recovery plan for your homelab. Covers backup verification, recovery time objectives, automated DR testing, documentation templates, and real-world recovery scenarios.
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Self-Hosted Wikis: BookStack, Wiki.js, and Outline for Homelab Documentation
Deploy a self-hosted wiki or knowledge base to document your homelab. Compares BookStack, Wiki.js, and Outline with deployment guides, backup strategies, and team collaboration features.
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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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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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Plex vs Jellyfin vs Emby: Choosing a Media Server for Your Homelab
A detailed comparison of Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby media servers — features, transcoding, client support, and integration with the arr stack for a complete homelab media setup.
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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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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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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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NFS vs SMB vs iSCSI: Choosing the Right Storage Protocol
A practical comparison of NFS, SMB, and iSCSI for homelab storage. Covers performance, compatibility, configuration complexity, and which protocol to use for VMs, containers, media, backups, and shared files.
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Paperless-ngx: Self-Hosted Document Management for Your Home Lab
Set up Paperless-ngx to digitize, organize, and search all your documents — from tax returns to receipts — with automatic OCR and smart tagging.
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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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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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GPU Passthrough in Proxmox: The Complete Guide
Step-by-step guide to passing a GPU through to a Proxmox VM — covering IOMMU, VFIO, BIOS settings, NVIDIA and AMD specifics, and real-world use cases.
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Self-Hosting Nextcloud: Your Own Cloud Storage Platform
Deploy Nextcloud as a self-hosted alternative to Google Drive and Dropbox. Covers Docker Compose installation, storage backends, performance tuning with Redis and OPcache, security hardening, backups, sync clients, and useful apps.