Got A Few Servers For 300: The Real Cost of Homelab Economics Introduction The Reddit thread titled “Got A Few Servers For 300” sparked intense debate among infrastructure professionals - and for...

I Just Set Up My First Home Server Introduction That moment when blinking LEDs confirm your makeshift server is alive - there’s nothing quite like it. Whether you’ve repurposed an old laptop like...

After 10 Years In Network Security Here’s The Audit Checklist I Actually Use Introduction After a decade of conducting security audits for SMBs and enterprises, I’ve discovered a harsh truth: 90%...

Mice Decided To Hijack My Truenas Storage Node Introduction When we discuss storage management in homelab environments, we typically focus on logical threats: RAID failures, bit rot, or ransomwar...

I Built A Digital Safe With Multiple Keys After A Few Too Many Bike Concussions Introduction A sudden crash on a mountain bike trail left me staring at the sky with a familiar dread - not about b...

My Tight Self Designed Small Homelab: A DevOps Powerhouse in 60 Watts Introduction In the era of cloud dominance, why would any DevOps professional invest time in building a physical homelab? The...

How Much I’ve Received In Donations In 3 Months Making Self-Hosted Apps Introduction The landscape of open-source development faces a critical paradox: while self-hosted tools form the backbone o...

Moved To Glance From Homarr And Its Incredible: A DevOps Perspective on Dashboard Optimization Introduction The eternal struggle for resource efficiency in self-hosted environments reached a crit...

Worst Part Of The Job Today Introduction The terminal blinked back at me with cold indifference as I typed the commands - userdel jsmith, passwd -l jsmith, az ad user delete --id jsmith@contoso.c...

I’m Thinking I Can Pay Off My House With This: The Reality of Enterprise Hardware Costs in DevOps Introduction When a Reddit user recently posted server upgrade photos with the caption “I’m think...