Homelab

Introduction Most residential internet connection use a dynamic public IP address. This means that your ISP can change your public IP at any time, making it difficult to access self-hosted services consistently. I already used Cloudflare to manage the DNS for my personal website, so when I needed a Dynamic DNS solution for my homelab, it made sense to use the tools I already had. Rather than paying my ISP for a static public IP or signing up for another DDNS provider, Cloudflare’s free API allowed me to keep my home server reachable through a permanent domain name. Whenever my home IP changes, a small script automatically updates the DNS record in Cloudflare. ...

🚀 Introduction Repurposing old hardware is one of the best ways to get started with a homelab. In this guide, I’ll walk you through how I installed Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) on an old Dell OptiPlex and turned it into a powerful virtualization server. 🖥️ Hardware Used Dell OptiPlex (old desktop) Intel CPU (with virtualization support) 8GB+ RAM (recommended) SSD (strongly recommended for performance) USB drive (for installation) 📥 Step 1: Download Proxmox VE Go to the official Proxmox website Download the latest ISO image Save it to your local machine 💿 Step 2: Create a Bootable USB You can also use tools like: ...

Introduction In this post, I will show how I deployed AdGuard Home in my home lab environment to achieve network-wide ad-blocking and DNS-level filtering. My homelab runs on Proxmox, with AdGuard Home inside a Docker container on a Linux virtual machine. This setup allows all devices on my network to benefit from ad-blocking, tracking protection, and enhanced DNS management without installing software individually on each device. Why AdGuard Home? AdGuard Home is an open-source, self-hosted network-wide ad-blocker and DNS resolver. Its key benefits include: ...