Home Lab

How CrowdSec is wired into the Caddy reverse proxy in front of a self-hosted home lab - a custom xcaddy build with the CrowdSec bouncer plugin, the scenarios that parse Caddy's access log for attacks, the community blocklist that bans IPs before they ever probe you, and the actual numbers seen after a week of internet exposure.

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.