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Minisforum BD795i SE Motherboard Review for Home Lab
Minisforum is a name that is synonymous with home labs. They have one of the best mini PCs…
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Home Lab Hardware I’m Most Excited About in 2025
As we are now near to the last month in the first quarter of 2025, there are many developm…
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AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX BIOS Settings: Power Consumption and Bifurcation
I have recently put together a Proxmox Home Lab Server build for 2025 and as the core of t…
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Core Performance Boost Setting: Speed vs Power Consumption in Home Lab
I have built up a couple of Ryzen 9 7945HX home server builds over the past few weeks and ha…
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Monitor Proxmox with CheckMK Open Source Monitoring
Many are utilizing Proxmox VE Server in their home labs. Proxmox is a great option for run…
Windows Server
DNS Failover for the Home Lab and Why You Need It
We have all heard the very common expression, “it is always DNS”. We joke about this often…
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Proxmox Swap Tweaks Guide! Dedicated drive, Swappiness, Page Cluster
I have been doing quite a bit of testing with Proxmox swap and Intel Optane drives for ult…
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Best Terminal for DevOps Just Landed!
Just yesterday at the time of this writing, Warp terminal for Windows was released, roundi…
Windows Server
Home Server Build 2025: Run Proxmox or VMware ESXi 16 Cores and 128GB RAM
I have been having fun building Proxmox servers with motherboards from Minisforum. I hadn’…
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Best Kubernetes Distributions for Home Lab Enthusiasts in 2025
Kubernetes is THE tool to learn for running containers. You can use it in the home lab, an…
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Optimize SSD and NVMe Storage for Virtualization in Your Home Lab
When building out your home lab, the storage layer is arguably one of the most important. …
