Excalibur's Sheath - page 4
Designing a Resilient Homelab: Redundancy & High Availability Simplified
August 10, 2025
Learn how to design a resilient homelab by implementing redundancy and high availability. This guide covers data protection strategies, hardware fail-safes, service failover techniques, and practical tips to keep your personal server environment running smoothly and reliably.
Building a Homelab Server: Choosing the Right Hardware
August 03, 2025
A practical guide to selecting homelab server hardware with an eye toward performance, efficiency, future growth, and real-world constraints — ideal for self-hosters, tinkerers, and sysadmins in training.
Preparing to Scale: Hardware and Philosophy
July 27, 2025
Learn what it takes to evolve your homelab beyond the basics. This guide covers hardware scaling strategies, common pitfalls, and the foundational mindset required to build resilient, production-style infrastructure.
Designing a Secure & Scalable Homelab Network
July 20, 2025
Secure and scale your homelab network with OPNsense. Includes a copy-ready checklist for segmentation, monitoring, and password sharing setup.
Network Monitoring, Logging, and Alerts
July 13, 2025
Learn how to proactively monitor, log, and alert on your homelab network’s health and security. This comprehensive guide covers installation commands, key monitoring tools, centralized logging strategies, dashboards, alerting systems, and practical tips to help you maintain uptime and troubleshoot effectively. Whether you’re running a simple single-server setup or a complex multi-device network, discover how to build a monitoring stack tailored to your needs.