Homelab / Self-hosting
Practical guides for building and operating homelabs with Proxmox, containers, virtualization, storage, backups, monitoring, and self-hosted services. The focus is reliable infrastructure, clear trade-offs, and systems that remain maintainable as they grow.
Homelab Dashboards Compared: Homepage vs Flame vs Dashy vs Heimdall
Uptime Kuma Setup: Simple Dashboard Alerts for Homelab Services
Monitoring Homelab Health: Setting Up Prometheus, Grafana, and Node Exporter
Running pfSense or OPNsense as a Proxmox VM: Best Practices and WAN Passthrough
Managing Storage Space in Proxmox: How to Clean Up Unused ISOs and Disks
Verifying Backup Integrity in PBS: Automated Bitrot Checks and Pruning
Proxmox Backup Server Restore Drill: Proving Your Backups Actually Work
SATA vs NVMe vs SAS for Homelab Storage: Performance and Power Differences
