Current Homelab Setup Introduction Building a homelab represents a significant milestone in any DevOps professional’s journey. What began as a simple Pi-hole installation on an old laptop has evo...

What Is Your Labs Idle Power Draw Understanding and Optimizing Your Self-Hosted Infrastructure’s Energy Consumption As DevOps engineers and infrastructure specialists, we often focus on performan...

Just Got My First Rack Is This Cat5 Or Cat6 Introduction Setting up your first server rack is an exciting milestone in your homelab or infrastructure journey. Whether you’re a seasoned DevOps eng...

Started With A Raspberry Pi Now I Run An Entire Aws Region At Home In the world of DevOps and infrastructure management, there’s something magical about transforming humble beginnings into a robus...

Built AWeb Server That Runs On Sunlight And 27Mb Of Ram INTRODUCTION The promise of a fully self‑hosted web presence often collides with the reality of power budgets, hardware footprints, and mai...

Ibm Server Lot Won At Auction Introduction Winning an IBM server lot at auction can be both exciting and daunting for DevOps engineers and system administrators. The Reddit user’s experience of a...

Windows Server Blocked My USB Pool So I Nested 9 Virtual Hard Drives Built A Parity Raid And Pulled A Drive While Copying Just To Prove A Point I once found myself in a peculiar situation where Wi...

Bad IT Decisions Causing A Corporate Meltdown Introduction In the world of corporate IT, few things are as catastrophic as a poorly executed technology migration. The story of a 1,200-person comp...

Show Me Your Most Threatening Router In the world of homelab enthusiasts and DevOps professionals, the quest for the ultimate networking device is never-ending. When someone asks to “show me your ...

Anyone ReadThis 49 Day SSL Expiration Thing And Think They Would Rather Just Retire Introduction If you have ever stared at a terminal while a cron job renews a Let’s Encrypt certificate every 49...