Tag: homelab

Zabbix is enterprise-grade monitoring that you can self-host, agents, templates, triggers, and dashboards for your entire home lab.

Apply zero-trust principles to your home lab, network segmentation, VLANs, identity-aware proxies, and Tailscale as the glue.

Containers share the kernel; VMs have their own. Understand the isolation trade-offs, overhead differences, and when to use which.

LXC/LXD runs full Linux environments in lightweight containers, faster to spin up than VMs and perfect for home lab service isolation.

Run a WireGuard VPN server in Docker with the linuxserver image, Compose setup, peer config generation, and road warrior access to your home network.

Run WordPress on PHP-FPM with Caddy as the web server, all in Docker Compose with automatic HTTPS and proper PHP config.

Google Photos went paid and the alternatives matured fast. Immich, PhotoPrism, and Ente: which self-hosted photo library actually fits your life in 2026?

Picking a recursive DNS resolver for your home lab, Unbound, Technitium, and BIND9 compared on speed, GUI, DNSSEC, and split-horizon.

HACS custom integrations can brick your Home Assistant setup overnight. Here's how to use them safely, recover when they don't, and know when to skip them.

ntopng vs darkstat: full DPI flow analysis vs a tiny always-on stats page. Pick the right tool for home-lab network visibility without losing your mind.

Gemma 4 vs Qwen3.6: sizes, reasoning, coding benchmarks, and which model you should actually pull for your home lab rig.

HAOS Add-Ons vs bare Docker Compose for Mosquitto, ESPHome, Frigate, when the Supervisor magic is genuinely worth it and when it just gets in your way.