Category: Home Lab

Posted in Home Lab ProxMox

Empower Servers: The Strengths of Proxmox

Proxmox as a home server solution, helping you decide whether it’s the right choice for your unique requirements.

Posted in Home Lab Plex Unraid

Unleash the Potential: Unraid Your Ultimate Home Server

Unraid is one of the leading solutions in this space, offering a versatile platform for creating a home server

Posted in Home Lab Storage

A Fascinating Behind-the-Scenes Look at Self-Hosting

I May have a problem. So I have a rack, and what good is a rack if you don’t have any servers? I have servers, so I need storage. Then I say something about girl bossing too close to the sun and that 62TB of storage may indicate that I have a problem. “62TB That’s […]

Posted in Home Lab Web Server

The Perils of Serving Websites From RAM – Part 2

Yes, the rsync solution worked well at speeding up my site. No, it did not allow me to delete files.

Posted in Home Lab Web Server

The Perils of Serving Websites From RAM – Part 1

Why Rob, Why! I find most of my projects stem from boredom and the inability to not f*ck with my server. So to that, I say, “I don’t know.” Sometimes I have to do dumb things because they can be done, and this is one of those times. Why not load my entire web directory […]

Posted in Home Lab Plex Unraid

The Many Iterations of My Server Rack

Old “Lab” Yep, this was my home lab circa 2005 (above). Five pcs on the floor, all single-thread AMD Athalon, and four gigs of ram. I was running MTGO YaTBoT trading MTGO Cards, one bot per PC. I took this lab apart long ago, and mom and Dad were probably happy to have this mess […]