Home Assistant is one of the best free and open-source applications out there, and it's easy to deploy and get set up for even the most basic of use cases. I dove head-first a few months ago into ...

I've got a confession to make. Well, more of a revelation, I guess, but it's one I should get off my chest. Apart from a brief foray into Hyper-V, I've mostly built my home lab on Level 2 hypervisors, ...

Although there is an option to manually migrate or import VMs from VMware ESXi to Proxmox, we will not discuss it in this post. We will demonstrate how to use Proxmox’s Built-in Import Wizard to ...

I recently bought a new Synology NAS and am still transitioning my data from my previous two units to it. It's about 30TB used on a 62TB volume. It's running on 1 GB Ethernet for now, but I'll ...

Building a DIY local backup server is an effective way to protect your data while maintaining full control over your storage setup. Below Hardware Haven, kindly takes you through one approach which ...

Building a home server can seem like a daunting task, but with the right tools and approach, you can create a powerful, scalable system tailored to your specific needs. This guide provides a ...