Homelab
Unraid 7.3 Internal Boot: Move Off USB Without Losing RecoveryNew!!
A documentation-backed, testable runbook for Unraid 7.3 Internal Boot: Move Off USB Without Losing Recovery, with safe defaults, validation evidence, failure modes, rollback, and publication-day checks.
Proxmox 9.2 Dynamic Load Balancing: Useful HA Or Small-Lab Overkill?New!!
A documentation-backed, testable runbook for Proxmox 9.2 Dynamic Load Balancing: Useful HA Or Small-Lab Overkill?, with safe defaults, validation evidence, failure modes, rollback, and publication-day checks.
Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.1: Multi-Node Visibility Without A Mega-ClusterNew!!
A documentation-backed, testable runbook for Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.1: Multi-Node Visibility Without A Mega-Cluster, with safe defaults, validation evidence, failure modes, rollback, and publication-day checks.
Watchtower Is Archived: Replace Blind Container UpdatesNew!!
A documentation-backed, testable runbook for Watchtower Is Archived: Replace Blind Container Updates, with safe defaults, validation evidence, failure modes, rollback, and publication-day checks.
LXC vs VM vs Docker VM in ProxmoxNew!!
A practical Proxmox placement guide for deciding when to use LXC containers, full VMs, or a dedicated Docker VM for home-lab workloads.
Proxmox Backup Server for Beginners
A beginner-friendly Proxmox Backup Server guide explaining PBS, retention, pruning, verification, restore drills, encryption, offsite sync, and sizing.
Proxmox 9.x Upgrade Plan for Home Labs
A practical Proxmox 9.x upgrade runbook for home labs, covering backups, pve8to9 checks, repositories, Ceph caveats, rollback, and post-upgrade validation.
From Homelab Chatbot to a Private AI Operations Platform
A beginner-friendly guide to turning a local AI chatbot into a practical private AI operations platform with document search, automations, local tools, coding agents, monitoring, backups, upgrades, governance, and a realistic beginner roadmap.
Running Local AI Alongside Media Services Without Fighting Your GPU
Run Ollama, Tdarr, Plex, Jellyfin, and Frigate on the same homelab more safely by understanding NVENC, NVDEC, CUDA, VRAM, scheduling, and monitoring.
Performance Tuning Ollama and Local LLMs Without Guesswork
Make Ollama and other local LLM tools feel faster by matching the model, context length, quantization, GPU offload, and logs to the hardware you actually have.