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Which Home Lab services do you monitor?
Check out The Home Lab Services I Never Stop Monitoring (And Why They Matter) #homelab #homeserver #monitoring https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2026/06/the-home-lab-services-i-never-stop-monitoring-and-why-they-matter/
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Which Home Lab services do you monitor?
What Lesser Known Proxmox features do you use in your home lab?
Check out 9 Proxmox Features That Quietly Improved How I Manage My Home Lab #proxmox #homelab #proxmoxfeatures https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2026/06/9-proxmox-features-that-quietly-improved-how-i-manage-my-home-lab/
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What Lesser Known Proxmox features do you use in your home lab?
A few Linux Management Tools for Home Lab Weekend Projects!
Check these out, highly recommend if you haven't tried these already: 9 Linux Management Tools Worth Deploying in Your Home Lab This Weekend #linux #homelab #homeserver #learningprojects https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2026/06/9-linux-management-tools-worth-deploying-in-your-home-lab-this-weekend/
A few Linux Management Tools for Home Lab Weekend Projects!
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The Project Objectives: 1. Learn about homelabbing by creating own homelab server 2. Create a music streaming server that can play bit-perfect song anywhere. 3. Automate music downloading for music streaming server. 4. Create a private cloud to store data. 5. Create a portfolio showcasing resume/cv. 6. Create a game server to play with friends. Hardware & Software:- 1. SudoBox Mini PC (r7 7345hs, 24gb ram and 2tb storage) 2. TP Link TL-SG108E Switch (Easy managed) 3. OpenWRT Router (Still Finding under budget 1.5k INR) 4. Proxmox Hypervisor 5. OPNsense as firewall 6. Navidrom as music streaming service 7. Nextcloud as cloud storage Limitations: 1. Have no more budget left. (bad choice spent all on hardware) 2. Can not have my home network distrubted at all. (so no opensense as firewall for whole network, else will need another hardware) 3. Do not have static ipv4, also behind cgnat. 4. ISP do not provide ipv6 as per them, the ipv6 service is still in launching phase. (ISP: Comway) The Whole Plan: I will put the isp router in bridge mode as soon as I got my hands on OpenWRT router within 1.5k INR budget (decent one), and use that to manage vlans as per the network diagram. Till then I am just plugging server directly to isp router to atleast get it running. I am using oracle cloud arm instances that is free to use (4ocpu and 24gb ram, I have created payg account as always free tier account only have half of that limit as per new oracle guidelines), I will divide the arm resources into two. i.e. 2ocpu with 12gb ram each. On Oracle Cloud Side:- 1. On instance 1 (public-gateway_node): I will have headscale running to create secure wireguard tunnel to my home server. Will put nginx reverse proxy for resloving routing. Will have portfolio hosted on it. Will have a blog/journal website which will keep track of my all the project failier and success both for the public. 2. On instance 2 (Minecraft Server): as per the name, it will have minecraft server running for me and my friends to play. May change it to other games server as per our requirements.
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@Pratik Bansal Very, very nice! Thank you for sharing this kind of progress with the community. I love it when I see ones diving into "getting their hands dirty" with the tech, even if they don't fully understand it. This will put you on the fast path to deeply understanding the tech as you complement your hands on learning with reading experimenting, etc. Project based learning is superior in my opinion to other learning tools. I also love how you are combining some public cloud resources with your home lab!
How many are using Podman Quadlets in the Home Lab?
Why Quadlets Finally Made Podman Click for Me in the Home Lab https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2026/06/why-quadlets-finally-made-podman-click-for-me-in-the-home-lab/
How many are using Podman Quadlets in the Home Lab?
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@Richard Hancox It is a super interesting pivot. I am not going all in on Podman from Docker, but I can see its appeal honestly. Definitely going to keep a Podman host around though and keep testing.
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I have been in the IT industry for over 24+ years now and have worked in various IT fields – I am totally passionate about technology and home labs!

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