Thanks Brandon - a nice little project to try. Nginx is always my quick and easy go to - will be nice to see how this stacks up.

Great article Brandon - this statement you made really sums things up: "Once a service becomes reproducible and something you can easily recreate, it stops being fragile as a home lab service. If something breaks, the question changes from how do I fix this to how fast can I rebuild it. That mental shift alone makes your lab feel more stable, even when failures happen."

Excellent choice for first services to spin up - I would add some type of Dashboard to this list as I always like a way of visualizing all the services that I am running - current favourite is HomePage.