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Homelab

Homelab guides and tutorials for self-hosting, home servers, networking, Docker, virtualization, backups, automation and running services at home.
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Homelab
TLS Certificates for Internal Services: HTTPS Inside Your Homelab
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security • 6 min read
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TLS Certificates for Internal Services: HTTPS Inside Your Homelab

# TLS Certificates for Internal Services: HTTPS Inside Your Homelab Most homelab TLS setups stop at the front door. You put Caddy, Nginx, or Traefik in front, get a valid certificate for `app.example.com`, and call it done. From the browser to the reverse proxy, everything is encrypted. From the r…
Techie Mike
Techie Mike •
Beyond Ollama: 3 Homelab AI Tools Worth Trying Next
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developer tools • 12 min read
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Beyond Ollama: 3 Homelab AI Tools Worth Trying Next

# Beyond Ollama: 3 Homelab AI Tools Worth Trying Next Ollama is the tool I recommend when someone wants their first local model running tonight. It is simple, fast to understand, and good enough for a lot of homelab jobs. Pull a model, hit an API, wire up Open WebUI, done. I already covered that fu…
Techie Mike
Techie Mike •
SSH Tunnels: A Practical Guide for Homelab Users and CS Students
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linux • 10 min read
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SSH Tunnels: A Practical Guide for Homelab Users and CS Students

# SSH Tunnels: A Practical Guide for Homelab Users and CS Students There's a moment every homelab user hits. You're away from home, staring at a coffee shop Wi-Fi login page, and you need to check your Proxmox dashboard. Or you want to share your Jellyfin server with a friend, but it's behind your…
Techie Mike
Techie Mike •
High School to Homelab — A Student's Linux Journey
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linux • 7 min read
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High School to Homelab — A Student's Linux Journey

# High School to Homelab — A Student's Linux Journey Last week, a high school student posted on [r/homelab](https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/). i5-6500T. 40TB NAS. ThinkPad X13 running Proxmox. Looking for advice on his setup. The best way to learn is to try and fail.…
Techie Mike
Techie Mike •
The Minimal Homelab That Actually Works
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hardware • 7 min read
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The Minimal Homelab That Actually Works

# Am I Overcomplicating This? — The Minimal Homelab That Actually Works Scroll through r/homelab for ten minutes and you'll see server racks that look like data center colocations. 42U cabinets. Enterprise switches with SFP+ cages blinking amber. Dual Xeon boxes drawing 400 watts.…
Techie Mike
Techie Mike •
Self-Host Redis 8.8 with Docker Compose — Homelab Guide
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developer tools • 10 min read
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Self-Host Redis 8.8 with Docker Compose — Homelab Guide

# Self-Host Redis 8.8 with Docker Compose — And Why It's Useful for Your Homelab Most homelabs start with storage. A NAS here, a media server there. But at some point you realize your services need to talk to each other — and that's when you discover you need something faster than your Postgres ins…
Techie Mike
Techie Mike •
Chuwi Minibook X vs BMAX Pro 8 — Budget Homelab Pick
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Computer components • 10 min read
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Chuwi Minibook X vs BMAX Pro 8 — Budget Homelab Pick

# Chuwi Minibook X vs BMAX Pro 8 — Which Budget Homelab Machine? You're building your first homelab on a budget. Maybe you want to run Docker, try Proxmox, or host a few self-hosted services. You've heard about the Chuwi Minibook X — it hit over 400 points on Hacker News. And the BMAX Pro 8 is a pr…
Techie Mike
Techie Mike •
Proxmox Homelab: Setup on a Mini PC, Ubuntu VMs & Beyond
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proxmox • 5 min read
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Proxmox Homelab: Setup on a Mini PC, Ubuntu VMs & Beyond

# Proxmox Homelab: Setup on a Mini PC, Ubuntu VMs & Beyond If you've ever wanted to run multiple operating systems and services on a single machine without the overhead of a full VMware setup, Proxmox is where it's at. It's an open-source virtualization platform that's powerful enough for productio…
Techie Mike
Techie Mike •