If the previous Lenovo M920x build was about maximizing the ...
Datacenter Performance
HomeLab Environment
HomeLab Environment
equipment:
Enterprise Security on a Homelab Budget: My FortiGate 90G Gamble and the 10GbE Necessity
Building an advanced homelab often feels like a constant collision ...
Breaking the 10GbE Barrier: Upgrading from a 4-Bay Bottleneck to the QNAP TS-855eU ZFS Powerhouse
For the last few years, my storage architecture has heavily ...
From PSOD Nightmare to 25GbE Glory: Elevating a Homelab to an Overkill Minisforum MS-A2 VMware Cluster
Building a high-performance homelab is rarely a simple journey. For ...
software:
Enterprise-Grade Email in a HomeLab: Integrating Exchange, Proxmox Mail Gateway, and FortiGate Introduction
Running an advanced, enterprise-grade homelab infrastructure requires more than just ...
The Ultimate Homelab Power Outage Orchestrator: Complete Automation with NUT, PowerShell, and vSphere
Every homelabber fears the sudden click of a UPS kicking ...
The All-Seeing Eye: Mastering Zabbix in the Modern Homelab
Every homelab eventually reaches a critical mass. You move from ...
DirectAdmin in the Modern Homelab: Fast, Secure, and Built to Last
When building a home datacenter, it is easy to get ...
tips:
The „Always-On” NOC: Adding a Dedicated Zabbix Dashboard to the Homelab Rack
When I was originally shopping for a UPS, having a ...
Transforming the Lenovo ThinkCentre M920x into the Ultimate Micro Server: A Custom Cooling Mod
The 1-liter "TinyMiniMicro" form factor has taken the homelab community ...
Silencing the Beast: MikroTik CRS518-16XS-2XQ-RM Noctua Fan Mod
Every homelab environment eventually reaches a bottleneck where standard networking ...
Pushing the Limits of a 1-Liter Micro Node: A Non-Destructive Cooling Mod for the Minisforum MS-A2 VMware Cluster
When building a home data center, the eternal struggle is ...
16/07/2026
Hardware upgrade completed! Today, I swapped out the older FortiGate 80E for a brand new 71G at my client's. It wasn't just a physical replacement – I took the opportunity to completely rebuild and optimize the configuration from scratch rather…
21/06/2026
Sometimes, IT administration feels more like being a watchmaker. Today's patient is a very old Tandberg StorageLoader tape library that has decided to act up again. Because of its age, the mechanism is failing, and every so often, a tape…
28/05/2026
The entire migration to the new building went smoothly, although it definitely cost us two solid all-nighters to get everything across the finish line. Moving physical hardware is only half the battle. Taking advantage of the extended maintenance window, we…
25/05/2026
Sometimes, being an IT administrator means giving up your weekend for the greater good of the network. This weekend's mission? Physically relocating a client's entire server room to the building right next door. While moving across the parking lot might…
15/04/2026
The calm before the storm. The empty theater auditorium viewed from the stage, just hours before the live broadcast crew arrived to set up their streaming gear. Let’s take a little trip down memory lane today.…
19/03/2026
Another day, another network transformation! Today’s mission took me to a client's warehouse facility where they actively service payment terminals and ATMs. The before shot. A chaotic spaghetti monster of unmanaged cables completely dominating the server…