Production-quality homelab engineering for enthusiasts. Forge your digital fortress through self-hosted infrastructure, automation, and resilient design.
Use Proxmox community helper scripts to spin up game servers, Plex, and homelab services in minutes instead of hours. What the scripts do, how to use them safely, and when to skip them.
Every piece of software to install after building a gaming PC: OS and licensing, drivers, launchers, monitoring tools, security, and backups, in the order it actually matters.
A tiered PC gaming build guide for 2026: CPU, GPU, RAM, storage, and PSU picks for budget, mid-range, and high-end builds, plus what changes if the box also runs a homelab workload.
Latest Core Lab updates: Kinguin safety breakdown, 2026 RAM benchmarks, overhauled reverse proxy guides, and the upcoming OPNsense series rewrite.
DDR5 prices have tripled thanks to AI datacenters eating the world's DRAM supply, but 16GB is still a completely viable amount of RAM for gaming in 2026. Here's the benchmark data, where 16GB actually breaks, and how to make it work on Windows 11 or Linux.
Is Kinguin legit? Yes. Here is the trust and verification model behind Kinguin's marketplace, in plain numbers: 13 years in operation, over 12,000 identity verified sellers, and a 4.6/5 Trustpilot score.
The real networking gear running my homelab: OPNsense, UniFi switches and APs, and budget 10GbE SFP+ switching, laid out as a layer-by-layer buying blueprint.
Where to buy homelab hardware in Canada in 2026: trusted used-enterprise and mini-PC sources, plus how to dodge brokerage fees and the border tax.
How to pick NAS hard drives in 2026, and the recertified Enterprise SAS/SATA drive market that quietly powers cost-effective Canadian homelabs.
The best pre-built NAS units for a 2026 homelab. UGREEN DXP4800 Plus/Pro and the TerraMaster F6 compared for Plex, storage, and RAM-upgrade headroom.
Intel or AMD for your 2026 homelab server? A tier-by-tier build guide covering Quick Sync transcoding, Ryzen core counts, chipsets and RAM for every budget.
The best mini PCs for a 2026 homelab, from silent N100 "Gatehouse" nodes to beefy Ryzen 7 mini-servers. Battle-tested picks for low-power, always-on self-hosting.
CrowdSec Web UI, Authelia MFA, a new reverse proxy learning path, and a family-friendly Mealie recipe manager setup in this month's Core Lab roundup.
Learn how to install Mealie with Docker in 2026. Build a beautiful self-hosted recipe manager with recipe imports, meal planning, shopping lists, and secure remote access.
Learn what a reverse proxy is, why every self-hosted homelab should use one, and compare SWAG, Traefik, Caddy, Nginx Proxy Manager, HAProxy and NGINX before choosing the right solution.
Stop exposing unsecured apps. Learn how to deploy Authelia in Docker with a KeyDB backend and SWAG to enforce centralized Multi-Factor Authentication.
