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Every article on rHomelab, in one place.

2026  55

September  30

Portainer vs Dockge vs Yacht: Picking a Docker Management UI for Your Homelab

September 30, 2026 · 7 min

Cloud Cold Storage for Data Hoarders: Backblaze B2, Wasabi, and Glacier Compared

September 29, 2026 · 7 min

Building a Homelab Rack: Choosing a Cabinet, Rails, PDU, and Cable Management

September 28, 2026 · 8 min

USB Passthrough in Proxmox: Getting Dongles and Peripherals into VMs and LXCs

September 27, 2026 · 7 min

Self-Hosted Git: Gitea vs Forgejo vs GitLab CE for Your Homelab

September 26, 2026 · 7 min

Burn-In Testing New Hard Drives: Catching Infant Mortality Before It Costs You an Array

September 25, 2026 · 8 min

Choosing SSDs for Your Homelab: Consumer vs Enterprise, and Where Endurance Actually Matters

September 24, 2026 · 7 min

Proxmox Snapshots vs Backups: What Each One Actually Protects You From

September 23, 2026 · 6 min

Self-Hosted AI: Running Ollama and Open WebUI on Your Homelab

September 22, 2026 · 7 min

Finding and Killing Duplicate Files at Scale: A Data Hoarder’s Guide to Deduplication

September 21, 2026 · 8 min

Picking a CPU and Motherboard for Your Proxmox Homelab: What Actually Matters

September 20, 2026 · 6 min

Proxmox Firewall: Locking Down Your Homelab at the Datacenter, Node, and VM Level

September 19, 2026 · 7 min

Nextcloud vs Syncthing: Picking a Self-Hosted File Sync Setup for Your Homelab

September 18, 2026 · 7 min

SnapRAID and mergerfs: Pooling Mismatched Drives Without Real RAID

September 17, 2026 · 8 min

Choosing a Managed Switch for Your Homelab: What Actually Matters

September 16, 2026 · 7 min

Migrating from VMware ESXi to Proxmox: What Actually Breaks (and How to Avoid It)

September 15, 2026 · 7 min

Self-Hosted Home Automation: Getting Started with Home Assistant on Your Homelab

September 14, 2026 · 7 min

The *arr Stack: Automating Media Acquisition with Sonarr, Radarr, and Prowlarr

September 13, 2026 · 7 min

Sizing a UPS for Your Homelab (and Setting Up NUT for Automatic Shutdown)

September 12, 2026 · 9 min

Proxmox VM Templates: Automating Deployment with Cloud-Init

September 11, 2026 · 7 min

Self-Hosting Vaultwarden: Setup, Hardening, and Backup for Your Password Vault

September 10, 2026 · 7 min

LTO Tape for Data Hoarders: When It’s Actually Worth the Complexity

September 9, 2026 · 8 min

IPMI, iDRAC, and iLO: Setting Up Out-of-Band Management for a Headless Homelab

September 8, 2026 · 8 min

Ceph in Proxmox: When Hyperconverged Storage Actually Makes Sense at Home

September 7, 2026 · 8 min

Self-Hosted VPN: WireGuard vs Tailscale vs ZeroTier for Homelab Remote Access

September 6, 2026 · 7 min

Plex vs Jellyfin vs Emby: Which Media Server Actually Fits Your Data Hoard?

September 5, 2026 · 7 min

HBA Cards and IT Mode Flashing: The Real Way to Connect a Homelab’s Worth of Drives

September 4, 2026 · 7 min

Proxmox GPU Passthrough: VM PCIe Passthrough vs LXC Device Passthrough

September 3, 2026 · 7 min

Immich vs PhotoPrism: Picking a Self-Hosted Photo Backup That Actually Replaces Google Photos

September 2, 2026 · 7 min

Hard Drive Shucking: Is It Still Worth It in 2026?

September 1, 2026 · 6 min

August  25

How Much RAM Does Your Homelab Actually Need (and Is ECC Worth It)?

August 31, 2026 · 7 min

Proxmox Clustering: When a Multi-Node Cluster Is Actually Worth It at Home

August 30, 2026 · 8 min

Pi-hole vs AdGuard Home: Picking a Self-Hosted DNS Ad Blocker for Your Homelab

August 29, 2026 · 7 min

Bit Rot Is Real: How to Actually Catch Silent Data Corruption Before It Spreads to Your Backups

August 28, 2026 · 8 min

Choosing a GPU for Your Homelab: iGPU vs Used Enterprise Card vs Consumer Card

August 27, 2026 · 6 min

Proxmox Networking: Bridges, Bonds, and VLANs for Your Homelab

August 26, 2026 · 7 min

Backing Up Your Self-Hosted Stack: Restic and Borg for Docker Volumes and Configs

August 25, 2026 · 6 min

LXC vs VM: Choosing the Right Proxmox Container Type for Your Homelab Workload

August 25, 2026 · 6 min

Mini PC vs Custom Build: Picking Your Proxmox Homelab Hardware Platform

August 25, 2026 · 6 min

Self-Hosted Authentication: Picking an SSO Layer for Your Homelab with Authentik or Authelia

August 25, 2026 · 6 min

The 3-2-1 Backup Rule for Data Hoarders: What Off-Site Actually Means at 50TB+

August 25, 2026 · 6 min

TrueNAS vs Unraid vs a Bare Linux Box: Picking a NAS OS for Data Hoarding

August 25, 2026 · 6 min

Homelab Power Draw: What Your Gear Actually Costs to Run (and How to Cut It)

August 21, 2026 · 6 min

Self-Hosted Monitoring: Setting Up Uptime Kuma and Grafana So You Know Before Your Users Do

August 20, 2026 · 7 min

Organizing a Media Library: A Folder Structure That Survives Plex, Jellyfin, and Your Own Backups

August 19, 2026 · 6 min

ZFS Storage in Proxmox: Picking a Pool Layout You Won’t Regret Later

August 19, 2026 · 7 min

10GbE Networking for Your Homelab: When It’s Worth the Upgrade (and When It Isn’t)

August 18, 2026 · 6 min

Nginx Proxy Manager vs. Traefik vs. Caddy: Picking a Reverse Proxy for Your Homelab

August 17, 2026 · 7 min

SMR vs CMR Hard Drives: The Trap That Catches Every Data Hoarder Once

August 14, 2026 · 6 min

Proxmox Backup Server: Setting Up Automated, Deduplicated Backups for Your Homelab

August 13, 2026 · 7 min

Buying Used Enterprise Gear for Your Homelab: What’s Worth It and What to Skip

August 12, 2026 · 6 min

Proxmox Self-Hosted Starter Kit v1

August 12, 2026 · 5 min

5 Self-Hosted Apps That Actually Replace Paid Subscriptions in 2026

August 11, 2026 · 6 min

How Much RAID Redundancy Do You Actually Need? A Data Hoarder’s Guide

August 11, 2026 · 5 min

Proxmox vs ESXi vs XCP-ng: Which Hypervisor Should You Actually Run at Home in 2026?

August 11, 2026 · 5 min