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Configure automatic Home Assistant OS backups to a Samba NAS, protect the encryption key, verify scheduled files, and practice a current restore path.
Deploy Linkwarden with Docker, preserve bookmarks as local archives, and back up its database, captures, and search data.
Set up Nginx Proxy Manager with Docker and Let’s Encrypt for homelab services. Choose HTTP-01 or DNS-01, protect the admin UI, and check renewals.
Self-host SearXNG with the official Compose stack and HTTPS. Learn its privacy limits, configure upstream engines and protect a public instance.
Use Tailscale in a Proxmox LXC to reach permitted homelab services through an encrypted tailnet and subnet route, without forwarding application ports.
Configure CAKE SQM on OpenWrt 25.12 or 24.10, shape the correct WAN device, and compare latency under load before tuning rates and overhead.
Plan tagged ports, PVIDs, DSA interfaces and firewall zones for a segmented home network; test DHCP, DNS, isolation and recovery before adding clients.
