Homelab

A running series covering firewall experiments, virtualization hardware, mini-servers, and the evolution toward a quieter, apartment-friendly homelab setup.

Homelab: 1 25 Year old computer as a firewall: 60Mbps throughput

17 November 2021

If you have spend some time around a computer interested individual you may at one time or another have come across the suggestion that a good use for an old computer is as a firewall and router around your home. The argument…

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Homelab: 2 Tiny 24 Core virtualization Computation with hacked hardware

17 November 2021

For some time a good way to get cheap and powerful computers, outside of cutting edge gaming or single-core heft, have been to get used server CPU's. There is even a interesting hardware hacking community around this practice coming out of China,…

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Homelab: 3 Turning laptops into mini-servers

4 October 2022

One of the most common e-waste sources out there is laptops, slower than other computers and often not upgradable, lacking ability to change peripherals, like screens. A sad fact as the vast majority of people do rarely use the full potential of…

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Homelab: 4 Family & apartment friendly server cabinet

17 October 2022

Finding ways to live with an interest in computers can be a challenge. That is having half a dozen computers running 24/7 is not something easily manageable, even though being tiny and near silent, the space required and mess is additive. This…

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