What Is Nested Virtualization? Nested Virtualization is a feature that allows you to run a virtual machine within a virtual machine while still using hardware acceleration from the host machine. ...

ZFS is a great file system that comes with TrueNAS and can meet all of your storage needs. But with it comes some complexity on how to manage and expand your ZFS storage pools. Over the last week...

Wow, what a year of self-hosting! After showing off my Home Lab hardware in my late 2022 tour, many of you asked what services are self-hosted in this stack. This is always a moving target so I d...

Well, here it is! My Late 2022 Server Rack and HomeLab tour! This is a special one because I just revamped my entire rack. I’ve upgraded, replaced, added, and consolidated quite a bit since my l...

Setting up alerts in Proxmox is important and critical to making sure you are notified if something goes wrong with your servers. It’s so easy, I should have done this years ago! In this tutorial...

Here’s a quick way to automate your battery backups and UPSes with and open source service called NUT server and a raspberry Pi. 📺 Watch Video NUT Server Install script Be sure to check out (a...

Today I look at 2 (or 3 depending on how you count them) UPS systems from Tripp Lite and Eaton. These UPS devices couldn’t be any different but they are awesome nonetheless. Each has it’s own uni...

I’ve been on a quest looking for a new server rack for my HomeLab in my home. I’ve outgrown my current 18u open frame rack and decided to give a 32u Sysracks Enclosed Rack a try! Join me as we pu...

My Storinator server from 45Drives is great, except for 1 thing. It’s a little loud for my home. It would be fine if it were in a data center or a real network closet, however this is in my basem...

Committing secrets to your Git Repo can expose information like passwords, access tokens, and other types of sensitive information. Some might think that committing secrets to a private Git Repo i...