As I was cleaning up my NAS recently I noticed that I ran out of storage even though my disk usage looked pretty low… turns out I was keeping a mega-ton of ZFS snapshots and due to…
I started my homelab journey being super naive about ZFS and how to manage the filesystem… that bit me in the butt when transfering a ton of files out of folders and into datasets…
I use Jellyfin at home for serving up most of our media - movies and shows etc. My dream is to have a GPU capable of transcoding any and all of our media for smooth playback on any…
Self-hosting 1 or several media servers is another common homelab use-case. Getting content for your media servers is up to you, but I’ll show a few ways here to get content somewh…
NAS One of the most common use cases for self-hosting anything is a file share system. I have been a fan of TrueNAS for a while. I currently use TrueNAS Core at home, and plan to c…
VPN Virtual Private Networks are a big deal, and this shouldn’t be considered anything even close to a guide on using them. Here are just my notes and some setup for how I use wire…
I run pi-hole at home for ad blocking and some internal DNS/DHCP handling. pi hole posts on the way One thing I’ve never put too much thought in is asking “how well am I doing at b…
I host a lot of services in my homelab, but they’re mostly dockerized applications so I have never had to care much about how content gets served up. Today I had several little con…
Traefik If you don’t know about traefik and you need a reverse-proxy then you might want to check it out. I used to use nginx for my reverse proxy but the config was over my head,…