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NAS HDD Temps

Sometimes problems cause headaches but are also great learning opportunities. I knew my R1 Pro NAS was running hot, especially for my 2 14TB Toshiba Enterprise drives. Since I couldn't do much about airflow, I decided I needed to at least monitor them. With the help of LLMs and extensive

Proxmox Cluster as my Homelab

A lot have happened in the last year. The first rule I've discovered is when you think you've got everything up and running as you want it, you're wrong! There is always room for improvements and a path to learning new things. As I've been getting myself familiarized with Proxmox

Monitoring Services

Slowly but surely you become addicted to your services and from time to time, things can and will break, an update can go wrong, power outage in the middle of the night shuts down your PCs etc. We are all used to things more or less working when we go

VPN to your homelab

I got my services up and running and enjoyed them, but what if I'm not at home? Tailscale easiest VPN to set up Since I had little to no knowledge on how to access my home network and opening ports on my router was a big no-no from a security

Pi-hole and NGINX Reverse Proxy

I love my Pi-hole instance. From network wide adblocking, to local DNS records is one those very few softwares that I cannot think how things worked before it. Used to run it on 1st gen RaspberryPi with a 4GB SD card but now is part of my Proxmox server as

Home Lab Overview

Home labbing has been something of a hobby for the last 2 years. Started rather humbly and without a sense of purpose and quickly became an obsession. Here I hope to capture some of the things I've built these last 2 years Current Setup Update 31/1/2025 All of