Latest Blog

A pre-purchase checklist for avoiding a fast but incompatible, under-cooled, or VRAM-limited GPU in a home AI server.

A storage design checklist that prevents one convenient container pool from becoming one shared capacity and recovery failure domain.

A pre-purchase and pre-deployment checklist for mixed NAS disks that prevents hidden capacity waste and unpredictable recovery behavior.

A practical pre-purchase screen for used homelab hardware that prioritizes acoustics, energy, serviceability, and recoverable ownership.

A buy-or-wait checklist that prevents a first homelab switch from becoming too loud, too small, or too limited for the planned network.

A pre-migration network gate for creators who need stable editing, fast ingest, predictable collaboration, and a safe path back if tests fail.

Prefer private remote access; expose a service only after identity, patching, least privilege, logging, backup, and rollback all pass.

Choose a UPS from measured load, required runtime, shutdown support, battery serviceability, and a full outage test—not VA alone.