UniFi PowerAmp: When You Need Power Conditioning in a Homelab
The UniFi PowerAmp shows up in a lot of build photos, sitting in its slot looking like the responsible-adult choice, and it...
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Cooling Math for a 10-Inch Cabinet: Vents, Fans, and Stack-Effect
A 10-inch cabinet is a small sealed box, and the laws of thermodynamics do not care that it is a tidy one....
Minisforum MS-01, MS-A2, MS-R1: Mini Workstation in a 10-Inch Rack
The Minisforum MS-01 did something unusual for a mini PC: it talked a lot of homelabbers out of buying used enterprise servers....
Lenovo ThinkCentre Tiny Homelab: M710q, M720q, M920q, M10q
If you want the cheapest honest path into a Proxmox cluster, it runs through a pile of used Lenovo ThinkCentre Tiny machines....
HP EliteDesk G3, G4, G5 Homelab Build
The used HP EliteDesk Mini is the box that quietly powers a large fraction of the homelabs on the internet, and the...
Dell Optiplex Micro Homelab Build (3000/5000/7000 Series)
A three-node Proxmox cluster is the project that turns a homelab from a single box you are afraid to reboot into something...
Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X: Still a Homelab Workhorse in 2026
The EdgeRouter X is old. Ubiquiti launched the ER-X in 2015, and by the calendar that makes it a decade-old product still...
Cable Management for a 12U Homelab Without Real PDUs
A 12U homelab is the awkward middle. It is large enough to hold a real stack — a gateway, a switch or...
UniFi Flex Mini with Keystone Breakouts: A Patch-Panel Replacement
The patch panel is one of those rack components that homelabbers buy because it is what a "real" rack has, then quietly...
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