Self-hosted guides for the homelab enthusiast

Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware killed the free ESXi hypervisor and raised enterprise prices by 300-1200%. Learn why homelabbers are migrating to Proxmox and how to make the switch.

Learn Docker Compose from scratch with a hands-on homelab tutorial. Covers syntax, networking, volumes, environment variables, and real-world stack examples.

A curated collection of production-ready Docker Compose examples for homelab services. Includes Traefik, Nextcloud, monitoring stacks, and security best practices.

Deploy Prometheus and Grafana to monitor Docker containers, host metrics, and application health. Includes Docker Compose setup, exporters, alerting, and dashboard templates.

Build a Grafana dashboard for your homelab with real panels for CPU, memory, disk, network, Docker, and Proxmox. Includes dashboard JSON and provisioning tips.

A practical guide to deploying Grafana Loki for log aggregation in your homelab. Covers Docker Compose setup, Promtail configuration, LogQL queries, and integration with Grafana dashboards.

Deploy the complete Grafana + Prometheus + Node Exporter + cAdvisor monitoring stack in Docker Compose. Includes scrape configs, dashboard provisioning, and alerting.

A step-by-step guide to building a Docker-based home server. Covers OS selection, Docker installation, storage, networking, and security hardening.