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

UniFi Cloud Gateway Fiber: SFP+ from the ISP, Cleanly

Fiber internet arrives at most homes as an awkward compromise: the ISP drops off a little plastic ONT, hangs a router off...

Read guide → Jul 27, 2026

For most of the last decade the homelab network question was binary: gigabit, which everyone had and nobody was excited about, or...

Read guide → Jul 24, 2026

Every clean rack has one object in it that the owner did not choose, cannot replace, and is not allowed to open:...

Read guide → Jul 23, 2026

The UniFi PowerAmp shows up in a lot of build photos, sitting in its slot looking like the responsible-adult choice, and it...

Read guide → Jul 22, 2026

A 10-inch cabinet is a small sealed box, and the laws of thermodynamics do not care that it is a tidy one....

Read guide → Jul 21, 2026

The Minisforum MS-01 did something unusual for a mini PC: it talked a lot of homelabbers out of buying used enterprise servers....

Read guide → Jul 19, 2026

Ask an MSP whether they would rather bolt a client's gear in with a machined steel bracket or a 3D-printed one, and...

Read guide → Jul 14, 2026

If you want the cheapest honest path into a Proxmox cluster, it runs through a pile of used Lenovo ThinkCentre Tiny machines....

Read guide → Jul 12, 2026

Every MSP eventually opens a box of cabinets from a new distributor, pulls out the bag of hardware taped to the rail,...

Read guide → Jul 8, 2026

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