Three ways to upload ISOs to Proxmox
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Three ways to upload an ISO to Proxmox — web UI, wget direct download, or SCP from the CLI. When each one wins, plus storage paths and checksum verification.
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Self-Hoster's Disaster Recovery: When Everything Goes Wrong at Once
Build a real disaster recovery plan for your home lab: RTO/RPO explained simply, 3-2-1 backup rule, Proxmox backups, Restic to Backblaze B2, and a runbook template you'll actually use.
Appwrite: Your Own Firebase, Minus the Google Surveillance Subscription
Appwrite self-hosted BaaS setup: auth, databases, storage, and serverless functions on your own hardware. Compare with Supabase and PocketBase.
Chaos Engineering: Break Things on Purpose Before They Break Themselves
Learn chaos engineering with Pumba for Docker container chaos and Toxiproxy for network failure simulation. Discover failures in staging before your users find them in production.
ArgoCD vs Flux: GitOps — When Your Git Repo Is the Source of Truth
ArgoCD vs Flux for Kubernetes GitOps: compare UI-focused ArgoCD with automation-first Flux CD. Sync workflows, install examples, and when to use each.
Time Sync on VMs: Why NTP Keeps Drifting
Your VM's clock is off by minutes. NTP is running but your system still drifts. Here's why.
BGP in Your Home Lab: Dynamic Routing for People Who've Run Out of Static Routes
Run BGP in your home lab with FRRouting. Covers iBGP vs eBGP, FRR installation, basic BGP config, peering with OPNsense, route filtering, and when BGP is actually worth the complexity.
BookStack vs Wiki.js: Picking Your Self-Hosted Documentation Platform
BookStack vs Wiki.js: different philosophies, same goal. Compare features, Docker setup, editors, SSO, and which one fits your team or homelab.
Proxmox vs XCP-ng: Hypervisors for People Who Like Their Data Center at Home
Proxmox vs XCP-ng compared for homelabbers: KVM vs Xen, ZFS, web UI, VM management, and which hypervisor to pick for your spare rack server.
the lost+found Directory in Linux
What is lost+found and why does it exist? fsck puts recovered file fragments there after a crash — and no, you can't delete it.
Docker Volume Mounts: Essential Flags
The -v and --mount flags for Docker volumes explained — bind mounts vs named volumes, read-only, propagation, and tmpfs options.
Understanding Docker vs. Full Virtual Machines (VMs)
Containers share the kernel; VMs have their own. Understand the isolation trade-offs, overhead differences, and when to use which.