Author: Frank Joseph
I've been building and breaking home labs for over a decade. You might know me as @WunderTechTutorials on YouTube.
I run WunderTech — and I write every article on it. No ghostwriters, no AI articles. If a tutorial is on this site, it's because I actually ran the thing on hardware I own, and usually broke it a few times first.
I've been working in corporate IT for over 15 years, focused on enterprise, networking, virtualization, application management, and storage. I hold a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems and an MBA. Honestly though, most of what ends up on WunderTech comes from the home lab I've been building and rebuilding for years.
Every tutorial on this site gets tested on real hardware before it goes live. My current home lab includes a Synology DS925+, a Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8, a DIY 110TB TrueNAS server I built (8 cores, 128GB ECC RAM, dual 25GbE NICs, 10 hot-swap bays), two UGREEN NAS devices (running TrueNAS), a Proxmox two-node cluster, and dual video surveillance running Blue Iris and UniFi Protect. That setup is where every Synology, Proxmox, UniFi, TrueNAS, and Docker article on this site originates.
I've personally owned and configured multiple Synology NAS units, built TrueNAS servers from scratch, run Proxmox clusters in production at home, and deployed UniFi networking across my entire house. When I recommend hardware, it's because I've lived with it. When I write a tutorial, it's because I did the thing, not because I researched how someone else did the thing.
I don't accept payment for positive reviews. Affiliate links appear on this site, but they never determine my recommendations — I link to what I actually use. You can read my full editorial standards and ethics statement, and if you need hands-on help with your own setup, I offer one-on-one consulting.
I also run the WunderTech YouTube channel, where 90,000+ subscribers watch video versions of these tutorials (12+ million views to date). If you prefer watching to reading, it's all there.
I've used various forms of Docker management tools, generally falling back to using Portainer. Though I've always preferred Portainer, I've tried Yacht, used Synology's Container Manager (and previously, their Docker…
Uptime Kuma is something that I configured a long time ago, but never really configured until this past weekend. I sat down, added all of my important servers, services, networking…
If you're a Proxmox user and you're interested in distributed storage, Ceph storage on Proxmox is most likely your best option. It functions extremely well with high availability and is…
If you're ever in a situation where your Synology NAS is offline, turning it on remotely can save you. Keep in mind that if you're not on the local network…
In this article, we're going to look at pfSense vs. OPNsense. pfSense and OPNsense are both firewalls that have many similarities, but also a bunch of differences. Overall, they both…
In this article, we will look at Plex vs Emby by comparing them side-by-side to determine which is the best media server software you can use. Before comparing both, we're…
If you're interested in implementing high availability for Proxmox, one of the first things you'll see is that you must use shared storage or replication for Proxmox VMs or Containers.…
If you're interested in implementing 10GbE on a Synology NAS, you're probably left wondering where to start. While the process of adding 10GbE on a Synology NAS is fairly straightforward…
In this tutorial, we're going to look at how to install Plex on Proxmox with Hardware Acceleration. This process will utilize an LXC container for Plex on Proxmox which keeps…
In this tutorial, we're going to look at how to install Jellyfin on Proxmox with Hardware Acceleration. This process will utilize an LXC container for Jellyfin on Proxmox which will…