Home Lab

How to publish self-hosted services running on a home server to the public internet using a cheap VPS and a reverse SSH tunnel - no port forwarding, no static IP, no Cloudflare in the middle. Covers the systemd/autossh setup, the double-hop Caddy config, buying a domain, why a static IP from your ISP usually isn't worth it, and using the same VPS as a whole-home VPN.

Part 3 of the home lab series. A step-by-step tutorial for network-wide ad-blocking with AdGuard Home, a Caddy reverse proxy, and clean local domains like http://photos.home.arpa instead of IP addresses and port numbers - plus how to point your router's DNS at it all.

How I monitor a home lab after opening it up to the internet - Caddy access logs shipped through Grafana Alloy into Loki with GeoIP enrichment, Prometheus scraping Caddy metrics, all tied together in Grafana.

Part 4 of the home lab series. A step-by-step tutorial for self-hosting Immich - a fast, private Google Photos replacement - on your home lab, including the multi-container compose file, hardware-accelerated machine learning on the Intel N100, a Caddy entry for photos.home.arpa, and backups for the data you can't afford to lose.

Part 2 of the home lab series. A step-by-step tutorial that takes a fresh Intel N100 box from a blank Ubuntu install to a Docker host running your first container - organized cleanly and version-controlled with Git.

Part 5 of the home lab series. A step-by-step tutorial for building an automated media server with the *arr stack - Jellyfin, Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr and a Transmission download client - all on the home lab, behind Caddy.

A comprehensive guide to building an affordable home lab server perfect for learning, self-hosting, and experimentation. Complete hardware recommendations with detailed explanations.