Home Lab & Self-Hosting
The SMR Drive Trap: Slow ZFS and How to Avoid It
Shingled magnetic recording drives can silently cripple ZFS pools with timeouts, faults, and multi-day resilvers. Here's how to spot and avoid them.
Home Lab & Self-Hosting
Home Lab & Self-Hosting
Self-Host Your Bookmarks with Linkwarden: Beat Link Rot
Deploy Linkwarden with Docker, preserve bookmarks as local archives, and back up its database, captures, and search data.
Home Lab & Self-Hosting
NUT UPS Shutdowns: USB Passthrough & Graceful Script
Get your Proxmox host to shut down cleanly before the UPS battery dies. NUT config, USB passthrough, and a shutdown script that actually fires.
Home Lab & Self-Hosting
Nginx Proxy Manager: Free SSL for Self-Hosted Services
Set up Nginx Proxy Manager with Docker to get free Let's Encrypt SSL for your homelab services. No raw nginx configs needed—just a clean GUI and automatic
Home Lab & Self-Hosting
Build a Private Search Engine with SearXNG
Ditch tracking and ads by self-hosting SearXNG, a metasearch engine that aggregates results privately. Step-by-step guide for your homelab.
Home Lab & Self-Hosting
Jellyfin Hardware Transcoding on a Mini PC: A Setup Guide
Set up Jellyfin with Intel Quick Sync hardware transcoding on a mini PC using Docker. Practical guide with backup tips and honest maintenance notes.