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.

A bright editorial homelab scene showing an application reaching a protected database layer across a private internal network boundary.

Aug 24, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Isolating Containerized Databases: Postgres and MariaDB Best Practices

A bright editorial scene showing a Compose-style application layout transforming into structured Kubernetes resources.

Aug 23, 2026H.W. Crestwood

How to Convert a Docker Compose File to a Kubernetes Manifest

A bright editorial homelab scene showing one host with separated container networking paths and controlled exposure.

Aug 21, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Exposing Container Ports Safely: Host Networking vs Bridge vs Custom Networks

A bright editorial virtualization scene showing one tagged VLAN path and one multi-VLAN trunk flowing from a host into guests.

Aug 17, 2026H.W. Crestwood

VLAN Tagging inside Proxmox: Trunking VLANs to VMs and LXC Containers

A bright editorial server-memory scene showing installed DIMMs and a subtle emphasis on data integrity and correction.

Aug 15, 2026H.W. Crestwood

ECC RAM in Homelabs: When It Matters and When It Doesn’t

A bright editorial server-hardware scene centered on premium power supplies and low-load efficiency behavior.

Aug 13, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Server PSU Efficiency Ratings: Titanium vs Platinum at Low Percentage Loads

A dark editorial homelab scene showing one host branching into Docker, LXC, and virtual-machine runtime paths.

Aug 12, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Docker vs LXC vs Virtual Machines: What Belongs Where in a Homelab?

A bright editorial comparison between three different styles of Docker web UI: full control platform, template launcher, and compose stack manager.

Aug 12, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Portainer vs Yacht vs Dockge: Choosing a Web UI for Docker Containers

A dark editorial homelab scene showing a compact server beside a refined monitoring display with thermal and fan activity cues.

Aug 12, 2026H.W. Crestwood

How to Monitor Proxmox Host Temperatures and Fan Speeds from the Dashboard

A bright editorial illustration showing Docker containers operating inside bounded CPU and memory resource lanes.

Aug 11, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Resource Limits in Docker: Restricting CPU and RAM Usage Per Container