Home Lab
A collection of step-by-step tutorials and comparisons on building a Home Lab. From self-hosting, to hardware, and everything in between.
A collection of step-by-step tutorials and comparisons on building a Home Lab. From self-hosting, to hardware, and everything in between.
Home labs quietly accumulate security problems the longer you run them. I went through my setup and found five areas that needed fixing — none of them complicated, all of them worth doing. Here's what changed and why it matters.
Starting a home lab in 2026 is genuinely easier than it has ever been, but it is also easy to overbuy and overcomplicate things from day one. These are the five categories that actually matter — NAS, hypervisor, networking, UPS, and a Raspberry Pi — and what to look for in each one.
Home labs are easy to set up and easy to accidentally expose. This guide covers five practical security improvements — from eliminating unnecessary port forwards to implementing strong authentication — that reduce your risk without turning your lab into a full-time job.
If you're interested in building a home server, whether it's a NAS, hypervisor, or just something to use as a simple file server, using a custom build gives you the…
If you start adding more services to your home lab, the inevitable scenario you'll find yourself in is forgetting IP addresses and ports. If you happen to remember the IP…
If you're interested in implementing a new home lab tool, or even just viewing other home lab operating system options, CasaOS should be on your list. The entire goal of…
Raid 1 and 5 are two of the most popular RAID types that you can use, but they're drastically different. In this article, we're going to compare RAID 1 vs…
In this article, we're going to look at RAID 6 vs RAID 10 to determine the best RAID type that you can use. RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) combines multiple…