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Top 5 Tools I Use to Manage My Home Lab in 2025
In running a home lab, you will spin up numerous resources, including containers, virtual machines, networks, and many other types of components th…
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5 Powerful but Cheap AI Workstations You Didn’t Know You Could Get (Perfect for Your Home Lab!)
I have really been looking at AI for the home lab and the hardware needed to run local language models (LLMs) successfully and in a speedy way. The…
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Best Budget GPU for AI in Your Home Server 2025
The heart of running AI workloads at home is the GPU installed in your AI workstation or AI server. If you are running local LLMs like LLaMA or loo…
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Killer Home Lab Projects You Can Build in a Weekend
I think that learning in the home lab is best accomplished by having your learning be project-based. When you have a project that actually benefits…
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NAS vs Virtual SAN vs Ceph: What’s the Best Storage for Your Home Lab?
One of the critical design decisions that you have with a home lab is storage. There are many great options available. And, depending on a few thin…
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Ultimate Guide to Building a 2.5GbE Home Lab Network in 2025
When it comes to networking, 1 gig networking is becoming “long in the tooth”. There have been many advancements in the networking field, especiall…
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GMKtec NucBox G3 Plus Review as a Home Lab Server
Many home lab enthusiasts or those that want to get into a home lab are looking for low power options to minimize the spend on running a lab server…
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Free Up Disk Space in your Kubernetes Cluster
If you run Docker container hosts either standalone or in a Docker Swarm cluster, you are probably familiar with the built-in command docker syst…
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My Top 3 Proxmox Server Builds for Performance and Efficiency
I have had so much fun the past few months building Proxmox servers based around Minisforum boards that have come out on the market as of recently,…
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Aoostar WTR Max Review: The Almost Perfect NAS Mini PC
Aoostar wtr max review I have been super excited to get my hands on this particular NAS device – the Aoostar WTRMax . At first glance, it looks…
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