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• Self-hosting SSO with Authentik and Samba 4 AD 2026-09-29Single sign-on is one of those things that sounds like an enterprise luxury until you're managing a homelab with fifteen services and a diff…
• You Need a Homelab! 2026-09-29A homelab isn't just a cluster of blinking servers in a corner of your house — it's a live test bench, a personal production system, and an …
• Running Proxmox on bare metal: a practical setup guide 2026-09-29Proxmox VE is the foundation of my homelab. Every service — the Samba AD controller, Authentik, Forgejo, TrueNAS, the monitoring stack — run…
• Self-hosting vs SaaS: how to decide what to run yourself 2026-09-29Every month you pay a SaaS bill, you are paying for someone else's infrastructure, operations team, and margin. Sometimes that is the right …
• WireGuard site-to-site VPN: homelab to VPS 2026-09-29The homelab runs on private RFC1918 addresses behind a consumer router. The VPS sits on the public internet with a static IP. Getting them t…