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Years of remote desktop frustrations, a brief WireGuard experiment, and the mesh network that finally made everything work. A journey through every way to access your homelab remotely.
After power crises, network ghosts, and phone-guided Proxmox recovery, it was time to verify everything actually worked—and make sure I'd never have to explain VMs to dad at halftime again.
The complete timeline of my homelab journey. ESXi to Proxmox, single drives to redundant arrays, VPNs to mesh networks. What worked, what broke, and why I'm still doing this.
A home lab commander's journey building a distributed compilation system that turned impossible updates into overnight batch jobs. The architecture, the failures, and why I'd never do this in production (except I did).
How I centralized monitoring for multi-network infrastructure using Homepage and Glances. Dealing with version conflicts, routing headaches, and building the ultimate dashboard.
Four days of homelab chaos: storage archaeology, dashboard building, a power crisis, and teaching dad to use Proxmox over the phone. The full story of building a proper monitoring system.
I self-hosted RustDesk to replace TeamViewer. Then spent three days debugging why I couldn't connect to anything from inside my own network. NAT hairpinning strikes again.
My storage isn't in one place. Unraid at dad's house, Synology for backups, Tailscale connecting it all. Here's how I manage 40TB across 40 miles.
Moving from manual SSH and shell scripts to declarative infrastructure management using Ansible playbooks and Terraform.
Setting up a lightweight Kubernetes cluster on a small home server for always-on services like VS Code Server, Uptime Kuma, and home automation.
How I manage large-scale home storage using a web-based file browser and encrypted cloud sync with rclone.
Running Proxmox VE at a remote location. LXC containers, ZFS storage, VPN connectivity, and managing infrastructure you can't physically touch.
Exposing homelab services to the internet safely using Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels and identity-aware proxying.
How to set up Cloudflare Tunnels for secure remote access to your home lab services
A step-by-step guide to setting up Proxmox VE for your home lab virtualization needs
I deployed VS Code to a server so I could write code from anywhere. Then I spent more time on authentication than the actual installation.
A subdomain that wouldn't resolve. An SSL certificate that existed but didn't work. Three hours of debugging Synology's certificate management to learn it was never properly assigned.
chown: Operation not permitted. The error message that launched a thousand Stack Overflow searches. Here's what's actually happening with Docker permissions on NAS devices.
My first foray into container orchestration: deploying a K3s cluster on modest hardware, migrating PostgreSQL, and learning that 'lightweight' is a relative term.
Building a security testing lab at home. From honeypots to Burp Suite, legal considerations to VLAN isolation - everything I learned in the first months of taking home security seriously.
How to set up and configure VS Code Server for seamless remote development from any device