Personally, I’m a staunch member of the Proxmox faction and wouldn’t trade it for anything else. But after falling down the ...

Back in 2025, I installed Proxmox on a cheap laptop from 2014, and while it was a great way to breathe some new life into a ...

Tech projects for IT leaders: How to build a home lab Your email has been sent Want to get a little closer to the technology side of tech leadership? Building a home lab is a rewarding project that's ...

When I was a kid, my home lab consisted of test tubes and beakers, sodium bicarbonate (baking soda), acetic acid (vinegar), and the occasional boom, followed closely by the sound of my mom in the ...

Have you ever poured hours into building a home lab, only to find yourself tangled in a web of mislabeled cables, unexpected shutdowns, or worse, data loss? For tech enthusiasts, a home lab is more ...

For a family member, Tom sets up the Terramaster and tests it for suitability as a NAS for his own home VMware lab. Last year I set up and reviewed a QNAP TS-431K after having a catastrophic failure ...

Right now I'm running Windows Server 2008 on my old 2Ghz, A7N8X & 768MB. But I'm ready to upgrade that this month.<BR><BR>As I will be running R2 as the OS, I'll need to have a 64bit system. I'm ...

Have you ever looked at an old, unused laptop gathering dust on a shelf and wondered if it could still serve a purpose? What if that aging device could be transformed into a cost-effective, ...

Earlier this year, I wrote that I was going to start a next-generation home lab. Alas, I haven't made any significant progress on the topic. But I did have a power outage that made me realize that my ...