Windows Server
PCIE Bifurcation and Why You Need It in Your Home Server
Building and running your own home server is one of the best ways to learn and allows ones to experiment and learn technologies that they might not…
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Windows Server
5 Uses for NVMe Storage in your Home Lab Server
I really think storage is an often overlooked aspect of setting up and configuring a home lab server. Most know about CPUs and memory as super impo…
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Windows Server
DNS Failover for the Home Lab and Why You Need It
We have all heard the very common expression, “it is always DNS”. We joke about this often, but very often DNS is at the heart of issues with conne…
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Windows Server
Home Server Build 2025: Run Proxmox or VMware ESXi 16 Cores and 128GB RAM
I have been having fun building Proxmox servers with motherboards from Minisforum. I hadn’t really considered getting back into building servers as…
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Windows Server
New OSConfig PowerShell Security Tool in Windows Server 2025
In looking at Windows Server 2025 and security configuration settings, there is a new tool that Microsoft has introduced called OSConfig . In cas…
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Windows Server
GlusterFS configuration in Ubuntu Server 22.04 and 24.04
In preparing to spin up a home lab Docker Swarm cluster, I wanted to get a working GlusterFS configuration setup on my Ubuntu Server virtual machin…
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Windows Server
Install Windows Server 2025 on Proxmox
With the Windows Server 2025 Preview release available, I know many are trying out Windows Server 2025 across their environments, including home la…
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