Homelab
Running Your Own DNS Server in a Homelab - Architecture, Lessons, and My Setup
DNS is one of the most critical services on the internet, quietly hanging out in the background of nearly every transaction that takes place on the Internet and local area networks. Every website you visit, every API request, every SaaS application, and nearly every internal network service depends on DNS resolution.
More ...NFS Mount Lazy Loading: Fixing Slow Boot Due to NFS
If you’re running NFS in your Homelab, you’ve probably dealt with this at least once.
You reboot a machine and it takes way longer than it should - long enough to mentally inventory every possible failure point before the login screen appears. Maybe Docker has a bad day because a bind mount wasn’t ready.
More ...Starting a Homelab the Right Way - With the Why
There’s a pattern I’ve noticed in Homelab culture: people start with hardware.
Racks of it. Blinking lights, enterprise gear pulled from datacenters, computing clusters before identifying a single problem they’re trying to solve.
More ...The Self-Hosting Responsibility Spectrum
Not all self-hosting is equal. The difference isn’t hardware, its operational accountability.
I took good look at my responsibility matrix and decided it was time for an upgrade to clarify where systems sit and what it all really means in practice:
More ...Homelabs, self-hosting, and doing whatever the fsck you want.
“Homelab” is one of those worlds that mean everything and nothing at the same time.
Depending on who you ask, it’s one of these:
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