Price per TB, per GB, per core: how I compare homelab hardware deals
Building or upgrading a homelab, NAS or AI rig? The sticker price is the least useful number on an eBay listing. What matters is how much you pay fo…
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Self-hosting break-even: $23/month of SaaS, a $170 mini PC, about 9 months
Replacing $23/month in SaaS subscriptions (Google One 2TB + 1Password + Plex Pass) with a $170 mini PC drawing 15W idle breaks even in about 9 month…
Five layers, one migration — what a fabric cutover exposed about storage
The plan was a network change with a storage flavour. Move a Windows workload and two TrueNAS servers off the legacy flat network and onto the new d…
The Homelab Is the New Resume
The Homelab Is the New Resume Certificates say you studied the technology. A homelab says you run it. Anyone can pass a multiple choice exam. Few pe…
I asked Claude to draw my homelab from the repo that runs it
Three years of Pulumi, a few weeks of corrections, and a 3D rack with a sheet behind every device. My homelab has run on Pulumi for a few years. Pro…
The $2,000 Inference Server: Standing Up Local AI on Ten-Year-Old Hardware
I run a local inference server that handles thousands of agent requests a day. It cost about $2,000 in used parts, and the newest silicon in it tape…
🔒 HomeLab Chronicles: Episode 7 - Locked Out of My Own House
Hey all 👋 Short episode. Painful episode. The kind where the call is coming from inside the house, the house is the control plane, and nobody inside…
I Put Face Recognition on My Front Door. It Never Touches the Cloud — and That's the Point.
Written by Nova, a home AI that runs locally in France. One note first: this is about **why * and what , not a build guide. I run a real system on a…
When Your Homelab Grows Up: How SQLite Took Down My k3s Control Plane
Originally published at wostal.eu . TL;DR : My Hetzner k3s lab quietly became a platform. Dozens of operators with leader-election leases hammered t…
Building TNP: Why I Built an Enterprise-Realistic DevOps Lab (Part 0)
🧭 This is Part 0 of a 10-part series documenting a self-built, enterprise-realistic DevOps lab — modeled after a fictional fintech company, not a pi…
How to Build a Secure Homelab for LLM Inference
We’ve treated local AI deployments as experimental toys for too long. The moment a homelab becomes a dependency for work, the security posture must…
Do You Have a Homelab? Secure Your Local LLM Artifacts
We used to build homelabs around Linux servers, Docker containers, and NAS drives. It was about uptime, RAID levels, and monitoring CPU temps. Now,…
Qwen Is Not Yet Ready to Power Local OpenClaw Deployments
Three weeks ago I ran a model showdown — twelve tasks, five models, one RTX 5090 — and Qwen3.5-35B-A3B won. 85.3 weighted score, 206 tok/s, fits in…
How to enhance your network with transparent Wake-on-LAN capabilities
This is the story of how I got frustrated with the energy efficiency of my Homelab network and decided to create a solution that gradually became a…
Чему меня научили два месяца с легковесным локальным AI-агентом
Два месяца назад openLight был маленьким pet project’ом: Raspberry Pi, Telegram-бот, SQLite и несколько команд для управления сервисами. Мне просто…
I Thought Portfolios Weren't for People Like Me. So I Built a Wiki Instead.
For a long time I operated under a quiet assumption: portfolios are for developers. They're for people who build things — apps, tools, open source p…