homelab

A homelab owner details how their Forgejo instance was hacked via CVE-2026-60004, an RCE in Gitea, and shares the postmortem including mistakes made and exploit analysis.

Tom Doerr shares the awesome-homelab curated list of top open source apps for homelab enthusiasts, featuring AI tools like Ollama, Dify, Open WebUI, and others.

The author replaces a Hetzner VPS with a CMF Phone 1 running Termux as a home server, detailing the pitfalls of installing postmarketOS and ultimately using Android with Termux, runit, Tailscale, and Caddy to host web apps like Surf and a finance tracker.

Proxmox has officially released Proxmox Virtual Environment for 64-bit ARM, with official support for NVIDIA Grace Hopper and Vera platforms, and best-effort support for other UEFI-based ARMv8/ARMv9 systems.

A blog post explaining how to configure SSH to automatically use a bastion host only when the target hostname is not resolvable locally, using the Match directive and getent command.

Dashy is an open-source, customizable homepage dashboard for homelabs with pre-built widgets, real-time status checks, and multi-user auth, all running in a single Docker container.

Introduces pve-microvm, a Debian package that integrates QEMU's microvm machine type into Proxmox VE, enabling sub-300ms boot times and hardware isolation with minimal overhead, supporting various guest OS types.

A practical guide to setting up a MikroTik router for a home lab, covering how to identify ISP connection types (IPoE vs PPPoE) and WAN IPv4 addresses (public vs CGNAT/DS-Lite) to configure the router correctly.

Benchmarking 15 decommissioned NVIDIA Tesla GPUs (K80, P100, V100) for modern AI workloads, showing their viability and cost-effectiveness for homelab inference setups.

The author details overhauling their homelab setup, moving from a Zimaboard with NixOS to a new Debian-based server with Dokploy, Jellyfin, Immich, and other self-hosted services, including improvements to home networking with fiber.

The author describes how they automated their homelab to require minimal manual maintenance using a single server, UniFi networking gear, and Docker containers with scheduled updates and backups.

Armadillo is a self-hosted DNS server written in Gleam for homelab use. It checks local records first and forwards unknown queries to an upstream resolver, with a configurable zone file and ETS caching.

A detailed blog post on building a custom 10-inch mini rack from aluminium extrusions to organize mini PCs and tidy up a desk.

The author describes migrating their homelab from Proxmox to NixOS with Incus, highlighting the benefits of declarative configuration and reproducibility over imperative systems.

A site called MiniPCs.zip charts thousands of Mini PCs by benchmark and reveals the Pareto frontier to help users get the most compute per dollar, using Gemini to extract specs from listings.

The author describes setting up an AI dev platform in his homelab using OpenCode Web UI with Git access, enabling AI-assisted maintenance of Docker services via PR review and GitOps deployment.

HomeLab Monitor is a self-hosted, single Docker container that aggregates GPU stats, container memory, disk usage, and service health across multiple machines via SSH, without requiring Prometheus/Grafana or agents.

A comprehensive review and comparison of nearly every IP KVM device available for homelab use, including PiKVM models, covering features, pricing, and security considerations.

BoxBox is a file manager designed for Linux homelab and NAS-style servers, offering a web-based interface for easier file management.

Dream Server is an open-source one-command installer that turns any PC, Mac, or Linux box into a private AI server with local inference, chat UI, agents, RAG, and image generation, no cloud required.