A home lab in Queenstown, New Zealand — Proxmox clusters, self-hosted mail, monitoring, certificates, home automation and the odd brewing or electronics project, written up as I build it.
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My Home Lab Suite: A Guided Tour
A start-here tour of my home lab as one connected suite, from the Proxmox cluster and mail server to publishing, media, electronics and brewing, with a link to every project write-up.
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7 categories, 22 posts
Mail and Identity
5Running my own mail server, a relay for alerts, an LDAP address book and a terminal mail client.
Publishing This Site
4How this Hugo site, its comments, analytics and the private knowledge base behind it are built and published.
Infrastructure and Backups
3The Proxmox cluster, storage, monitoring and backups that the rest of the home lab runs on.
Media and Home Automation
3Home Assistant, live TV in Jellyfin and a wall dashboard, all self-hosted.
Network and Security
3Firewalls, certificates, DMZ design and access control for a self-hosted home lab.
Electronics and Brewing
2Home brewing with temperature control and a running batch log.
Overviews and Opinion
2Start-here tours of the home lab and opinion pieces on how it gets built.
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Infrastructure and Backups
Mail and Identity
Passkey Single Sign-On for My Home Lab with Authentik
October 23, 2026
Network and Security
A LAN-Only Web Console for My Home Lab
October 23, 2026
Publishing This Site
A Git-Backed Home Lab Knowledge Base with BookStack
October 23, 2026
Infrastructure and Backups
Homelab Monitoring with Grafana, Loki, Prometheus and Alloy
October 23, 2026
Network and Security
Let's Encrypt for Internal Hosts with DNS-01 and SSH Push
October 23, 2026
Mail and Identity
Self-Hosted Email: Running My Own Mail Server Again
October 23, 2026
Publishing This Site