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Check out these shutdown procedures for Proxmox clusters & with Ceph
Proxmox Cluster Operations Every Home Labber Hopes They Never Need (Until They Do) https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2026/02/proxmox-cluster-operations-every-home-labber-hopes-they-never-need-until-they-do/
Check out these shutdown procedures for Proxmox clusters & with Ceph
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A lot of great info. Thanks!
Backup Proxmox VE Server itself - very cool tool for Home Lab
Check this out: This Proxmox Backup Gap Can Wipe Out Your Home Lab but this tool helps to keep that from happening: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2026/02/this-proxmox-backup-gap-can-wipe-out-your-home-lab/
Backup Proxmox VE Server itself - very cool tool for Home Lab
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That looks great! I'm definitely going to try it out.
Enterprise Server Tools
Does anyone take advantage of iDRAC or iLo on their server hardware?
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iDRAC is a very good thing. I have one server equipped with it and it's great. I don't have a lot of occasions where I access it but I'm glad it's there when the need arises.
Do you think that home labs are going away in 2026 and beyond? Your thoughts?
Are Home Labs Dead in 2026? The Comment That Forced Me to Rethink Everything #homelab #homeserver #ramprices https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2026/01/are-home-labs-dead-in-2026-the-comment-that-forced-me-to-rethink-everything/
Do you think that home labs are going away in 2026 and beyond? Your thoughts?
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I definitely don't think home labs are going away. In my case, I'm using mine more than ever. What is changing is that my tentative plans to upgrade some of the hardware are on semi-permanent hold given current prices. It's forcing me to rethink what I might be able to do with old hardware I might have otherwise sold or gotten rid of.
Combining Hobbies
Anyone else using your homelab/self hosting capabilities to support a different hobby? I just started doing something new and thought I'd share it with you all. I've been an amateur (ham) radio operator since 1983. I recently found about 44net, which are blocks of public IPv4 addresses available to ham radio operators for ham radio related use. They can be used for pretty much anything ham radio, such as ham radio related websites, connections to radios for digital communications and so on. Nothing commercial or non-ham radio can be offered through this IP. I'll admit I know very very little about it so far, but went ahead and applied for my first IP which I received very quickly. I'm doing it through what I guess you call a side project to 44net called 44net Connect that provides your 44.x.x.x IP to you via a Wireguard tunnel. I needed to do it that way because I'm behind CGNAT. They provide the public end, you provide the end you're working from. I've been wanting to learn to make websites with the Hugo framework, so I set up a new VM on Proxmox (isolated from the rest of my LAN) for that. I installed nginx and Wireguard and connected my new public IP. I started setting up my first ham radio website, though there's very little there at the moment. That will change soon. You can see it at ka9phi.org. With the big winter storm approaching my area, I suspect I'll have more time than usual to devote to this for a few days. As a side note, I'm using a self hosted Wazuh instance to monitor security on this new site, just for extra learning and security.
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@Brandon Lee I love aviation and would love to be a pilot. Sadly, flying is not a poor man's hobby, I'll probably never be a pilot, but I'd love to get a nice drone or maybe an RC plane.
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@Robert Getty Congrats on the upgrade to General. I'm still figuring out what I can do with 44net, but I think I would eventually like to set up a Winlink node. Gonna be a while before that happens but it's a goal anyway.
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Ken Pryor
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Technology Infrastructure Manager for community college. Long time home labber and retired police officer/digital forensics investigator

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