Self-Hosted

I’ve written about the home lab at a high level already. The firewall got glossed over in a paragraph and that’s never quite sat right with me, because OPNsense is doing most of the work that stops the home lab from becoming somebody else’s problem. This post walks through the config as it currently runs. Not a tutorial. Not a clean-slate build guide. Just what’s actually on the box, what each piece is doing, and which of the “this looks clever” choices turned out to be worth it. ...

Home Lab Overview: Alecto and Friends I’ve always enjoyed tinkering with operating systems and finding ways they improve day-to-day life. I’m not a cloud hater. Cloud services are useful and I still use them. I self-host because it’s fun. With most SaaS tools, you’re limited by design choices you had no part in. My biggest self-hosted system is a Plex machine. I watch what I want, how I want, for roughly the cost of electricity. There’s also been a serious learning component: networking, security, general IT practice. That alone has made it worth running. ...