Series 6 posts

Homelab from scratch

Why you would run your own, what to buy, how to reach it from outside, what to run on it, and how to get it back when it dies.

Six posts that go from an empty shelf to a cluster with a backup you have actually restored from. The order matters: the hardware post comes before the network, the network before the hypervisor, and the backup post is last because it is the one everybody skips.

Start here if self-hosting appeals to you and you own no server yet. It assumes a terminal and nothing else.