Homelab

Can I Run My Home Server and Local AI on the Same Mini PC?

Homelab

Local AI

Can I Run My Home Server and Local AI on the Same Mini PC?

Tobias Mensah

Tobias Mensah

September 27, 2026

When Should You Stop Self-Hosting and Pay for a VPS?

Homelab

Self-Hosting

When Should You Stop Self-Hosting and Pay for a VPS?

Nina Foster

Nina Foster

September 27, 2026

Is RAID a Backup? What It Protects You From—and What It Doesn't

Backups

Homelab

Is RAID a Backup? What It Protects You From—and What It Doesn't

Maria Torres

Maria Torres

September 27, 2026

2.5 GbE vs 10 GbE: When Can You Actually Tell the Difference?

Home Networking

Homelab

2.5 GbE vs 10 GbE: When Can You Actually Tell the Difference?

Lars Beckmann

Lars Beckmann

September 27, 2026

What Happens to Your Self-Hosted Services When Your Internet Goes Down?

Homelab

Self-Hosting

What Happens to Your Self-Hosted Services When Your Internet Goes Down?

Tobias Mensah

Tobias Mensah

September 27, 2026

Should You Run One Big Home Server or Several Small Ones?

Homelab

Self-Hosting

Should You Run One Big Home Server or Several Small Ones?

Nate Holbrook

Nate Holbrook

September 27, 2026

Can a Local LLM Work Completely Without Internet?

Homelab

Local AI

Can a Local LLM Work Completely Without Internet?

Jesse Cole

Jesse Cole

September 27, 2026

NAS vs Mini PC: Which Should Run Your Docker Containers?

Docker

Homelab

NAS vs Mini PC: Which Should Run Your Docker Containers?

Duncan Hale

Duncan Hale

September 27, 2026

How Much RAM Does a Home Server Actually Need?

Homelab

Self-Hosting

How Much RAM Does a Home Server Actually Need?

Sam Chen

Sam Chen

September 27, 2026

Do You Need a Domain Name for a Home Server?

Homelab

Self-Hosting

Do You Need a Domain Name for a Home Server?

Felix Braun

Felix Braun

September 27, 2026

Reverse Proxy vs Cloudflare Tunnel vs Tailscale: What Does Each One Actually Do?

Homelab

Self-Hosting

Reverse Proxy vs Cloudflare Tunnel vs Tailscale: What Does Each One Actually Do?

Jesse Cole

Jesse Cole

September 27, 2026

CGNAT Explained: Why You Can't Reach Your Home Server From the Internet

Home Networking

Homelab

CGNAT Explained: Why You Can't Reach Your Home Server From the Internet

Devin Harper

Devin Harper

September 27, 2026

Do You Actually Need a Static IP for a Home Server?

Home Networking

Homelab

Do You Actually Need a Static IP for a Home Server?

Lars Beckmann

Lars Beckmann

September 27, 2026

Docker Compose Backup Strategies for Beginners: What to Copy and How to Prove It Restores

Homelab

Self-Hosting

Docker Compose Backup Strategies for Beginners: What to Copy and How to Prove It Restores

Ellis Crowe

Ellis Crowe

September 27, 2026

Best Mini PCs for a Home Server: The Used Office Box, the N100, and When Ryzen Is Worth It

Hardware

Homelab

Best Mini PCs for a Home Server: The Used Office Box, the N100, and When Ryzen Is Worth It

Jesse Cole

Jesse Cole

September 27, 2026

Uptime Kuma vs Better Stack: Who Watches Your Services When the Box Is the Outage

Homelab

Monitoring

Uptime Kuma vs Better Stack: Who Watches Your Services When the Box Is the Outage

Omar Fenton

Omar Fenton

September 27, 2026

Docker Compose depends_on service_healthy vs a Sleep: The Race the Healthcheck Misses

Docker

Homelab

Docker Compose depends_on service_healthy vs a Sleep: The Race the Healthcheck Misses

Felix Braun

Felix Braun

September 21, 2026

UPS Pure Sine vs Simulated Sine for a NAS: The Waveform the VA Sticker Hides

Homelab

Power

UPS Pure Sine vs Simulated Sine for a NAS: The Waveform the VA Sticker Hides

Marcus Feldmann

Marcus Feldmann

September 21, 2026

Tailscale Serve vs Opening a Port: One Homelab Service Without Funnel

Homelab

Networking

Tailscale Serve vs Opening a Port: One Homelab Service Without Funnel

Julian Park

Julian Park

September 21, 2026

Tailscale Key Expiry: The Phone That Quietly Drops Off the Tailnet

Homelab

Networking

Tailscale Key Expiry: The Phone That Quietly Drops Off the Tailnet

Mira Kessler

Mira Kessler

September 21, 2026

Tailscale Exit Node on a Travel Router: What Still Uses the Hotel's DNS

Homelab

Networking

Tailscale Exit Node on a Travel Router: What Still Uses the Hotel's DNS

Devin Harper

Devin Harper

September 21, 2026

Tailscale MagicDNS vs Pi-hole: Which Resolver Wins When Both Claim Your LAN

Homelab

Networking

Tailscale MagicDNS vs Pi-hole: Which Resolver Wins When Both Claim Your LAN

Benito Ruiz

Benito Ruiz

September 21, 2026

Tailscale ACLs for a Household: When Sharing the Whole Tailnet Is the Mistake

Homelab

Networking

Tailscale ACLs for a Household: When Sharing the Whole Tailnet Is the Mistake

Mira Kessler

Mira Kessler

September 21, 2026

A Second Uptime Kuma: When the Monitor Host Is the Thing That Dies

Homelab

Self-Hosting

A Second Uptime Kuma: When the Monitor Host Is the Thing That Dies

Omar Fenton

Omar Fenton

September 21, 2026

Kuma Maintenance Windows vs Healthchecks Grace: Planned Downtime That Still Pages You

Homelab

Self-Hosting

Kuma Maintenance Windows vs Healthchecks Grace: Planned Downtime That Still Pages You

Diana Vos

Diana Vos

September 21, 2026

Uptime Kuma Status Pages vs a Tailscale-Only Dashboard: When a Public Page Leaks Your Hostnames

Homelab

Networking

Uptime Kuma Status Pages vs a Tailscale-Only Dashboard: When a Public Page Leaks Your Hostnames

Mira Kessler

Mira Kessler

September 21, 2026

Uptime Kuma Keyword Monitors vs HTTP 200: Sites That Look Up While the App Is Dead

Homelab

Self-Hosting

Uptime Kuma Keyword Monitors vs HTTP 200: Sites That Look Up While the App Is Dead

Ivo Markham

Ivo Markham

September 21, 2026

Gatus vs Uptime Kuma: When a YAML File Beats Another Docker Dashboard

Homelab

Self-Hosting

Gatus vs Uptime Kuma: When a YAML File Beats Another Docker Dashboard

Jonah Reeves

Jonah Reeves

September 21, 2026

A Useful Homelab Security Audit: What SOC 2 Checklists Don't Test

Homelab

Security

A Useful Homelab Security Audit: What SOC 2 Checklists Don't Test

Alex Kowalski

Alex Kowalski

September 18, 2026

The Cost of Poor Homelab Docs: Restore Notes You Can't Find During an Outage

Backups

Homelab

The Cost of Poor Homelab Docs: Restore Notes You Can't Find During an Outage

Ellis Crowe

Ellis Crowe

September 18, 2026