When most people think about self-hosting services in their HomeLab, they often think of the last mile. By last mile I mean the very last hop before a user accesses your services. This last hop, wh...

Have you been thinking about building a low power, efficient, small form factor but performant Proxmox server? This is the perfect home server build for anyone who wanted to virtualize some machi...

The Turing Pi 2 is a compact ARM cluster that provides a scalable computing on the edge.The Turning Pi 2 comes with many improvements over the Turning Pi 1.This model ships with 32GB of RAM, SATA I...

In my quest to make my services highly available I decided to use keepalived.keepalived is a framework for both load balancing and high availability that implements VRRP.This is a protocol that you...

After showing off my Home Lab hardware in my late 2021 tour, many of you asked what services are self-hosted in this stack. This is always a moving target so I decided it was time to share which se...

I’ve been on a quest to find a new logging system.I’ve use quite a few in the past, some open source, some proprietary, and some home grown, but recently I’ve decided to switch.I’ve switched to Gra...

In my previous video (Meet Grafana LOKI, a log aggregation system for everything and post, I promised that I would also explain how to install Granfana Loki on Kubernetes using helm.If you’re looki...

Well, here it is! My Late 2021 Server Rack and HomeLab tour! This is a special one because I just revamped and remodeled a spot in the basement for my new data center / server room (still picking...

Windows 11 is here and with it comes new hardware requirements.These requirements not only affect physical hardware but also virtual hardware too.The TPM 2.0 requirement for Windows 11 is shaking t...

You’ve spun up lots of self-hosted services in your HomeLab but you haven’t set up monitoring and alerting yet.Well, be glad you waited because today well set up Uptime Kuma to do just that.Uptime ...