CCharles Hartmann·20h agokeep-daily=7 doesn't mean 7 days of backupsProxmox and PBS retention keeps the newest backup in each calendar bucket, not a span of days. How a month of failed jobs can prune away your...6 min read·homelabtherightway.hashnode.dev11M
CCharles Smith·3d agoThe 2026 Homelab AI Stack: What's Worth RunningHugging Face's advice after its July breach was to have a capable model on your own infrastructure before you need it. A homelab is a cheap place to learn what "capable" means.6 min read·chuckworks.hashnode.dev21R
SSalvatore Milite·3d agoIdempotent by Design: OpenWrt with AnsibleThe baseline is backed up. Now the router builds itself.13 min read·vrainlab.hashnode.dev
SSamuel Aniekeme·4d agoBuilding a Check Engine Light for My Homelab with GrafanaWhy I stopped building wall art Most homelab Grafana dashboards are beautiful and useless: forty graphs, a world map of blocked IPs, and nobody knows which line should worry them. I rebuilt mine aroun26 min read·10xannie.hashnode.dev
JJJozzieTech·6d agoWhy I tested from inside the networkA 2 Gbps WAN validated from inside the production network — nine Ookla runs across three Sydney ISPs, with the measurement discipline shown.6 min read·jjozzietech.hashnode.dev
SSalvatore Milite·Nov 4One Cable, Four NetworksThe rack is assembled and the hardware is in place. Now the software starts.7 min read·vrainlab.hashnode.dev
TTravis Rice·Nov 4Turning a Surplus TP-Link Archer AX21 into a Dedicated OpenWrt Wireless Lab BridgeSolving multi-node connectivity constraints in a historic rental by repurposing a $25 MediaTek-based Wi-Fi 6 router into a dedicated, low-latency client bridge.6 min read·travisirice.hashnode.dev
SSunny·Nov 2🐈 Episode 11 - schrodingers clusterHey all 👋 Last episode was an RCA with seven root causes and a port number. This one is an RCA with one root cause, five wrong theories, and a cluster that reported itself healthy for thirty-eight ho19 min read·sunny-snskarora.hashnode.dev
CCharles Hartmann·Nov 3Delete old Proxmox VMs without regretThe backup, verify, then destroy-with-purge routine for clearing out stopped guests safely, including the linked-clone check that stops you...5 min read·homelabtherightway.hashnode.dev
CCharles Smith·Oct 30Five Security Lessons My Homelab Taught Me, and Why Enterprise Teams Should CareRunning a self-hosted stack at home turned into an unexpectedly rigorous security education. Here are five disciplines the homelab develops naturally, and how they translate to production environments.15 min read·chuckworks.hashnode.dev1
