Homelab
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.
Linux Failure Injection Lab: Test systemd, Disk, DNS, and RecoveryNew!!
Run bounded Linux failure-injection tests for systemd crashes, full and read-only filesystems, DNS and network loss, watchdogs, external alerts, rollback, and user-facing recovery without using production as the target.
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.
Proxmox Networking Without Tears
A practical Proxmox networking guide for bridges, VLAN-aware ports, management IPs, bonds, NAT, SDN, and safe change validation.
LXC vs VM vs Docker VM in Proxmox
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.
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.
Nemotron and Agentic Local AI
A practical guide to NVIDIA Nemotron models and agentic local AI: what a homelab can run, what needs bigger GPUs, and how to keep tools bounded and logged.