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Hi there! Hope you're doing well :) I've spent the last few months documenting my experiences with running a server at home. I hope that I've been able to help others get started with doing the same, or at least put some inspiration out for exploring...
Introduction You should always keep backups of your important data in the case of catastrophic hardware loss or corruption! Think about this like a good insurance plan: when accidents inevitably happen, you want to be able to recover what you lost wi...
What is a NAS and why should I care? Whether it be photos, videos, music, or important documents, you most likely have a bunch of files scattered around your computer. Maybe you have an external hard drive if you ran out of space, and maybe you also ...
Introduction At this point in the series, you should have a fully functioning set of services available at your command and some knowledge on how to extend this framework to host whatever you want! That's pretty much all you need for the most basic h...
Introduction It's taken a little while, but we're finally ready to host our first service in a VM! This section is very choose-your-own-adventure: I'll give an example of how to set up a service I run (Portainer), as well as the general framework I u...
Before we can properly offer services on our VMs, we'll need to make sure they are accessible over the Internet! However, simply exposing the entire server to the Internet (via portforwarding or otherwise) is extremely dangerous, since it allows anyo...
Introduction This section is optional, and provides additional context in the case that you would like to attach a GPU to your VM. This can be useful for a variety of tasks, such as setting up a cloud gaming server (which we'll do now) or performing ...
Prerequisites If you haven't read Part 1 yet, go do that now! At this point in the series, my hope is that you now have a very high-level sense of what you might want to achieve with your homelab, and are generally aware of the steps you'll be taking...
This article is optional, and only concerns those who want to build a new server using consumer hardware. If you already have an old computer/Raspberry Pi, or are using a VPS, feel free to skip this article. Introduction This section is intended for...
