Self-Hosted Local LLMs with Ollama and Open WebUI
Run open-weight language models entirely on your own hardware, with a ChatGPT-style web interface, no API key and no data leaving your network.
Intermediate
1 h
Free
Managing a Homelab with Docker Compose, Portainer, and Watchtower
Go from a pile of one-off `docker run` commands to a consistent, visible, auto-updating set of self-hosted services.
Intermediate
1.3 h
Free
Essential Homelab Resources, Tools, and Communities
A curated starting point for the homelab and self-hosting world: the communities, reference lists, and tools worth knowing about before you build anything.
Beginner
30 min
Free
Building a Router and Firewall with OPNsense
Replace your ISP router with a real firewall: full visibility into your network's traffic, VLAN segmentation, and rules you actually control instead of whatever your ISP shipped.
Advanced
4 h
$100
Network-Wide Ad Blocking with Pi-hole
Block ads and trackers for every device on your network at the DNS level, with no per-device app or browser extension, by making Pi-hole your network's DNS server.
Beginner
1 h
Free
Home Assistant for Home Automation
Bring your smart home devices under one local dashboard and write real automations across brands, instead of juggling a separate app -- and a separate cloud account -- for each one.
Beginner
1.3 h
Free
Self-Hosted Media Server with Jellyfin
Stream your own movie, TV, and music library to any device, on your own hardware, with no subscription and no cloud dependency.
Beginner
1.3 h
Free
Proxmox VE Command-Line Reference
The Proxmox CLI commands you actually reach for -- cluster status, VM and container management, storage, and backup/restore -- grouped by task, not alphabetically.
Intermediate
15 min
Free
Build a 3-Node Proxmox VE Cluster
Join three separate machines into one Proxmox VE cluster with real quorum, so you can manage every host from one UI and live-migrate a running VM between them without downtime.
Intermediate
4 h
Free
Proxmox HA: Automatic VM Failover Across Nodes
Make your Proxmox cluster self-healing: a VM automatically restarts on a surviving node within about a minute of the node it was running on going dark, with no one touching anything.
Advanced
2.5 h
Free