Homelab
Self-hosting, storage, virtualization, monitoring, backups, media servers, and lab designs that build habits you can use in production.
Stop Overpaying for Home Networking Gear: What Is Actually Worth Buying?New!!
Expensive networking gear is not always wasteful, but most homes overpay when they buy labels instead of solving a measured problem. Here is how to decide what is worth buying.
Plex From DVD and Blu-ray: Storage, Transcoding, and Backup BoundariesNew!!
Plan a Plex workflow for discs you own or are authorized to use: estimate storage, preserve source and metadata decisions, choose direct play or transcoding deliberately, and separate library recovery from duplicating every media file.
Build a Homelab Service Catalog Before You Forget EverythingNew!!
A practical homelab service catalog guide for tracking what runs where, who uses it, how it is backed up, and how to recover it.
Homelab SSO: Authentik vs Authelia vs Pocket IDNew!!
A practical homelab SSO comparison covering Authentik, Authelia, Pocket ID, OIDC, SAML, proxy auth, passkeys, MFA, and recovery planning.
Container Security for Normal HomelabsNew!!
A normal-person Docker security guide for exposed ports, privileged containers, Docker socket risk, secrets, rootless mode, user namespaces, and backups.
Self-Hosted App Lifecycle: Updates, Rollbacks, and Release NotesNew!!
A self-hosted operations guide for updating containers safely, reading release notes, backing up state, automating carefully, and rolling back.
How to Monitor Home Fiber: ONT Signals, Optical Power, and FailoverNew!!
Monitor FTTH from the customer side using approved ONT status, Ethernet and router counters, latency and loss baselines, full-path UPS coverage, and controlled failover tests, then turn the results into useful ISP evidence.
Immich V3 Migration RunbookNew!!
A documentation-backed, testable runbook for Immich V3 Migration Runbook, with safe defaults, validation evidence, failure modes, rollback, and publication-day checks.
Proxmox Networking Without TearsNew!!
A practical Proxmox networking guide for bridges, VLAN-aware ports, management IPs, bonds, NAT, SDN, and safe change validation.
Proxmox Storage for Normal PeopleNew!!
A plain-English Proxmox storage guide explaining local, local-lvm, ZFS, NFS, iSCSI, Ceph, PBS, snapshots, and backup boundaries.