Rack guides

How to rack-mount anything.

Fit guides, build notes and plain answers for homelab gear.

Rack-Mounting an eero Setup (When You Have to Keep It)

There is a particular kind of homelab that starts with a rack and a plan, and there is another kind — more...

Read guide → Aug 12, 2026

The Lutron Smart Bridge is one of those devices that spends its life as a small white puck sitting on a shelf,...

Read guide → Aug 11, 2026

The original UniFi Switch 8 has been quietly moving packets in racks for the better part of a decade, and every few...

Read guide → Aug 10, 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

Fifty people is the size where a network stops forgiving improvisation. At ten users you can run a prosumer router and a...

Read guide → Aug 5, 2026

There was a stretch of UniFi history where the Cloud Key was not optional. If you wanted a UniFi network, something had...

Read guide → Aug 4, 2026

Walk into enough small-business network closets and you learn to spot the ISP handoff before you find the switch. It is the...

Read guide → Jul 30, 2026

Homelabbers tend to think they invented the problem of putting small, earless Apple hardware into a rack. They did not. Custom AV...

Read guide → Jul 29, 2026

Most homelabs do not need 10G everywhere. They need 10G in one or two specific places — between the NAS and the...

Read guide → Jul 28, 2026

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