Scaling Your Homelab: Scale-Up and Scale-Out for Resilience
August 31, 2025
Learn how to scale your homelab efficiently with vertical (scale-up), horizontal (scale-out), and hybrid strategies. Explore network expansion, virtualization, load balancing, and best practices for monitoring and managing complexity to build a resilient and capable home lab.
Virtualization in the Homelab: VMs, Containers, and Best Practices
August 24, 2025
Master virtualization in your homelab with virtual machines and containers. Learn platform selection, hardware planning, VM and container setup, networking, storage, and best practices for monitoring, backup, and security to build a reliable and scalable home lab.
Building a Secure Home Network with OPNSense
August 17, 2025
Step-by-step guide to building a secure home network with OPNSense, including DNS filtering, Work LAN isolation, hardware inventory, and firewall setup. Perfect for laying the foundation for future VLANs and VPNs.
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.