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How I went from 16 months of VPN pain and port forwarding nightmares to a flat mesh network connecting two sites 40 miles apart. Covers subnet routing, ACLs, LXC container access, Unraid bare-metal Tailscale, and the routing table hacks that made it all work.
Deploying Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, cAdvisor, Smokeping, Healthchecks, and Promtail on one box. Seven containers, 45 minutes, and one ironic nodejs detour.
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.
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.
How I went from open ports and pray to zero inbound connections. Cloudflare Tunnels, Zero Trust Access, and the split-horizon DNS trick that makes it all transparent.
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.
16 months of container orchestration on modest hardware. The experiments, the OOM kills, the networking traps, and why I'd still choose K3s for a homelab.
Four days, 463 messages, and one reverse proxy that refused to cooperate. The story of how I containerized my entire infrastructure by sheer stubbornness.
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.
ArgoBox didn't begin in 2023. It started around 2011 as a seedbox in a closet. Then ESXi. Then distributed. Then unified. August 2023 was just when I finally started writing things down.
How to set up and configure VS Code Server for seamless remote development from any device