My First Home Lab R Homelab Welcome to your friendly r homelab, where techies and sysadmin from everywhere are welcome to share their labs, projects, builds, etc. A beginner's guide to setting up your first homelab. learn how to define goals, choose hardware (raspberry pi, nuc, used servers), select software (proxmox, docker), set up basic networking, and start small.
My First Home Lab R Homelab In light of this fact, i wanted to share this journey with you, starting with the hardware selection process for my home lab. if you have ever been interested in building a home lab or if you already have one, then let’s mingle, share and dabble together. This may not seem like a big deal to some but i started building my first at home soc lab today on a raspberry pi 5. i'm still very new to cybersec and have only been learning since september. I’ve been slowly piecing together a homelab using old laptops, a few servers, and a bunch of open source tools. it’s not perfect, but it works for me. My homelab began years ago, before i even heard the term “homelab” with a synology ds216j, a 2 bay nas (network attached storage). this served as a place for me to store my files and backup my laptop. it evolved over time through different forms into what i have today.
Finally Setup My First Home Lab R Homelab I’ve been slowly piecing together a homelab using old laptops, a few servers, and a bunch of open source tools. it’s not perfect, but it works for me. My homelab began years ago, before i even heard the term “homelab” with a synology ds216j, a 2 bay nas (network attached storage). this served as a place for me to store my files and backup my laptop. it evolved over time through different forms into what i have today. Practical homelab guide on servers, nas setup, self hosted apps with docker, virtualization via proxmox, and networking basics to build a reliable, quiet home server. If you want to break into it but don't have experience, a home lab is the best way to get hands on practice. a home lab lets you test, break, and fix things in a safe environment—without the fear of messing up company systems. it's how i built my skills before getting hired. This blog is a place for me to gather notes about my homelab, and this first post is a guide intended to get folks started on their homelab journey. this post won’t tell you how to implement your homelab it’ll simply lay out the big questions and things you need to think about as you get started. There are several ideas for it, one of which is, of course, to create a gaming device out of it, but after some thought rather than just focusing it as a game center, i thought how about a media server or even my own home lab to dev some app, and here we are.
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