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 comparison between Docker-managed local volumes and containers reaching shared NFS storage over the network.

Aug 11, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Docker Volume Management: Local Storage vs NFS Bind Mounts

A dark editorial homelab scene showing one Proxmox host splitting into a structured ZFS storage path and an efficient LVM-thin path.

Aug 11, 2026H.W. Crestwood

ZFS Datasets vs LVM-Thin: Which Storage Backend Fits Your Homelab Workload?

A refined virtualization scene showing one VM boot path splitting into a legacy firmware path and a modern UEFI path.

Aug 10, 2026H.W. Crestwood

OVMF vs. SeaBIOS: Choosing the Right Firmware for Your Proxmox Virtual Machines

A bright editorial homelab scene showing a very lightweight Alpine-based container environment running small services efficiently.

Aug 10, 2026H.W. Crestwood

How I Run Alpine-Based LXC Containers for Ultra-Lightweight Homelab Services

A split editorial homelab scene showing a compact single-drive node beside a multi-bay storage array.

Aug 10, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Single-Drive Homelabs vs Multi-Drive Arrays: Evaluating Risk vs Cost

A creative editorial comparison between unprivileged and privileged LXC containers, showing stronger and weaker trust boundaries.

Aug 9, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Unprivileged vs Privileged LXC Containers: The Real Security Trade-Off

A dark editorial homelab scene showing three compact servers linked in a disciplined cluster topology.

Aug 8, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Building a 3-Node Proxmox Cluster: Quorum, Corosync, and Network Requirements

A bright editorial illustration showing Docker container log streams being rotated and contained before they can overwhelm host storage.

Aug 8, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Managing Container Logs: Preventing Docker from Filling Up Host Disks

A bright editorial comparison between a daemonless container model and a centralized daemon-based container model.

Aug 8, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Podman vs Docker for Homelabs: Daemonless Containers Explained

A creative editorial comparison between Docker inside an LXC and Docker inside a virtual machine, showing different isolation boundaries.

Aug 8, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Docker inside LXC vs Docker inside a VM: Pros, Cons, and Security Pitfalls