Year-One Build Log: Everything I'd Do Differently
A year ago this rack was a wire shelf, a surge strip, and a gateway sitting on top of a modem sitting...
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Top 10 Homelab Mistakes That Cost You Time Later
Most homelab regrets are not about the gear. They are about decisions made in the first two weekends that quietly set the...
SMB Firewalla Deployment for SOHO Clients
Every MSP has a tier of client that does not fit the standard build. Six to twenty seats, one office, no server...
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...
Lutron Smart Bridge in a Rack: Why and How
The Lutron Smart Bridge is one of those devices that spends its life as a small white puck sitting on a shelf,...
UniFi Switch 8 (Original): Still Useful in 2026?
The original UniFi Switch 8 has been quietly moving packets in racks for the better part of a decade, and every few...
Mounting UniFi USG and Cloud Key Gen 2 Plus Together (1U)
The UniFi Security Gateway and the Cloud Key Gen 2 Plus are both a hardware generation behind Ubiquiti's current lineup, and both...
SMB UniFi Build for a 50-Person Office
Fifty people is the size where a network stops forgiving improvisation. At ten users you can run a prosumer router and a...
Cloud Key Gen2 Plus: Still Worth It vs Local UniFi OS Console
There was a stretch of UniFi history where the Cloud Key was not optional. If you wanted a UniFi network, something had...
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