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Vertical Sled or Flat Mount: Two Ways to Rack a Raspberry Pi Cluster

Once a Raspberry Pi project grows past a single board, there are two fundamentally different ways to rack the boards that follow,...

Read guide → Sep 30, 2026

The Raspberry Pi rack mount problem usually starts small: one board running Pi-hole, or Home Assistant, or a single Kubernetes node someone...

Read guide → Sep 29, 2026

Every homelab rack has one device that didn't get a vote: the ISP box. The modem, ONT, or gateway your provider handed...

Read guide → Sep 3, 2026

The UniFi Security Gateway and the Cloud Key Gen 2 Plus are both a hardware generation behind Ubiquiti's current lineup, and both...

Read guide → Aug 7, 2026

The original UniFi Express — the little cube that was equal parts gateway, single access point, and stripped-down controller — was the...

Read guide → Jun 9, 2026

A Raspberry Pi cluster is one of those homelab projects whose appeal is roughly inversely proportional to how much it makes sense...

Read guide → May 31, 2026

Firewalla occupies an unusual slot in a homelab. It is not quite a router in the UniFi sense and not quite a...

Read guide → May 17, 2026

UniFi gear is built for desks and shelves. Most of it is half-width, fanless, and beautifully styled — and that means the...

Read guide → Apr 26, 2026

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