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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 refined Proxmox-style host showing one simple bridge path and one separated dual-bridge path.
Aug 8, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Configuring Network Bridges in Proxmox: Single NIC vs Dual NIC Setups

A refined editorial scene showing a Proxmox guest disk expanding through hypervisor, partition, and filesystem layers.
Aug 8, 2026H.W. Crestwood

How to Resize Virtual Disks in Proxmox and Expand Filesystems Inside the Guest OS

A dark editorial homelab scene showing a virtualization host being carefully updated while guest workloads remain calm above it.
Aug 8, 2026H.W. Crestwood

How to Safely Update Proxmox VE Without Breaking Running Workloads

A dark editorial virtualization scene showing one physical processor beneath multiple guest CPU topology layers.
Aug 8, 2026H.W. Crestwood

CPU Core Allocation Myths: vCPUs vs Physical Cores vs Sockets

A dark editorial virtualization scene showing a host and guest layers with one memory reservoir flexing under pressure.
Aug 8, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Memory Ballooning in Proxmox: How It Works and When It Breaks

A dark editorial homelab scene showing one virtualization host branching into three different storage models.
Aug 8, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Understanding Proxmox Storage Types: Local-ZFS, LVM-Thin, and Directory

A dark editorial homelab scene showing a small server and a few branching paths that suggest early infrastructure choices.
Aug 8, 2026H.W. Crestwood

The First Homelab Mistakes I Would Never Repeat

A dark editorial homelab scene showing a primary server linked cleanly to a dedicated backup system.
Aug 8, 2026H.W. Crestwood

The Day I Configured Proxmox Backup Server

A dark editorial homelab scene showing a stable host and one partially broken container environment.
Aug 8, 2026H.W. Crestwood

What I Learned After My First Proxmox LXC Broke

A compact mini PC on a dark desk beside networking gear and a monitor with a soft virtualization glow.
Aug 6, 2026H.W. Crestwood

What I Learned Before Buying My First Mini PC for Proxmox

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