selfhosting

This site has been around, in one form or another, since 2019. It didn't start as a personal site or a homelab journal. It started as a learning project, and for most of its life it lived under a different name: pilab.dev. Looking back at it now,...

If you've run a homelab for any length of time, you've probably had the same thought I have: "I should really write this down." You spin up a Proxmox host, throw a few LXCs on it, add a NAS, layer in some VMs, expose a handful of services,...

Most of the tooling around self-hosted media servers is aimed at the people running them. Dashboards, request systems, analytics, transcoder tweaks. All useful, all important, but none of it really answers a much simpler question that...

Imagine a world where your Plex media library looks as professional as it feels. Posteria is the solution Plex enthusiasts have been waiting for – a sleek, intuitive platform that transforms how you organize and showcase your movie, TV show, and...

I thought my recent good luck with my Plex server upgrade was great, then I won a Minisforum MS-A1 ! I was listening to some YouTube videos while working the other day. I came across a channel @VirtualizationHowto that I hadn't seen before. The...

Recently while visiting a friend for their retirement ceremony I came across a deal too good to pass up. I was in Oklahoma for the event. It was an Air Force retirement. The base is a smaller one so I knew I had to check out the BX. I have always...