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FeaturedSeries · 5 partsNov 13, 2026·46 min total

Homelab series

The story of my homelab, from a zero-euro pile of spare parts to the machine I run today.

• homelab
• self-hosting
• proxmox
• hardware

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Homelab series

1. 1The Frankenlab
2. 2The Rebuild
3. 3The Media Stack
4. 4The Infrastructure
5. 5Keeping It Alive

All 5homelab 5self-hosting 5proxmox 3hardware 2backups 1jellyfin 1media 1monitoring 1music 1networking 1security 1zfs 1+ 5 more

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Nov 13, 2026·13 min readHomelab · Part 5

Keeping It Alive

Part 5 of my homelab story, backups on PBS, what's worth backing up, disk health, monitoring and how I handle updates.

• homelab
• proxmox
• backups
• monitoring
• self-hosting

Nov 12, 2026·8 min readHomelab · Part 4

The Infrastructure

Part 4 of my homelab story, local DNS, proper domain names and certificates, SSO, password vault, VPN and subnet routing.

• homelab
• networking
• self-hosting
• security

Nov 10, 2026·11 min readHomelab · Part 3

The Media Stack

Part 3 of my homelab story, Jellyfin, request handling, Navidrome, Soulseek, the arr stack and media quality optimization.

• homelab
• jellyfin
• media
• music
• self-hosting

Nov 9, 2026·8 min readHomelab · Part 2

The Rebuild

Part 2 of my homelab story, repurposing some great parts to build a much more capable machine.

• homelab
• proxmox
• zfs
• hardware
• self-hosting

Nov 7, 2026·6 min readHomelab · Part 1

The Frankenlab

Part 1 of my homelab story, a cost-free machine built from hand-me-down parts and what I got from it.

• homelab
• proxmox
• hardware
• self-hosting