Homelab
Monitoring and Health Checks for a Plex and Arr Homelab
Build useful health checks for a Plex and Arr homelab: storage mounts, imports, transcoding capacity, certificates, backups, queues, and daily reports.
IoT Isolation for Homelabs: VLANs, Firewall Rules, and mDNS
A practical IoT isolation guide that keeps smart-home devices usable while protecting trusted clients, servers, and management networks.
Back Up and Restore Jellyfin and the Media Automation Stack
Protect Jellyfin, Plex, Arr, SABnzbd, and Tdarr state with consistent encrypted backups, an explicit restore order, and an isolated recovery test.
Ubiquiti Site Magic Routing: A No-Nonsense Beginner Guide to Routes, Route Injection, and Software-Defined Wide Area Network Fabric Design
A practical Site Magic routing guide covering UniFi site-to-site VPNs, route injection, subnet overlap, firewall policy, and branch troubleshooting.
Reverse Proxy for Media Apps: Nginx Proxy Manager, SSL, Access Lists, and Security
A safer way to publish media-app hostnames with Nginx Proxy Manager, SSL, access lists, private defaults, logging, patching, and recovery boundaries.
Homelab DNS Guide: Local Names, Ad Blocking, and Reliability
A practical homelab DNS design for local names, ad blocking, split DNS, redundant resolvers, VPN clients, and safe internal naming.
Plex + Tdarr GPU Strategy: Sharing NVIDIA GPUs Without Hurting Playback
How to share an NVIDIA GPU between Plex and Tdarr without hurting live playback, including worker limits, scheduling, driver checks, and testing.
Radarr Import Lists That Do Not Fill Your Library With Junk
Control Radarr import lists with source tags, staged search behavior, root folders, quality profiles, and manual review before automation creates noise.
Homelab Reverse Proxy Guide: HTTPS Without Unsafe Exposure
A security-first reverse proxy guide for homelabs, covering DNS, TLS, app exposure, internal-only services, authentication, logging, and validation.
Custom Formats and Quality Profiles Explained for Radarr and Sonarr
Understand Radarr and Sonarr quality profiles, custom formats, minimum scores, upgrade behavior, language rules, and TRaSH-style scoring.