nzhillnet · Home lab, automation and self-hosting by Roland Hill

The Home Assistant integrations page showing a grid of configured integrations

Home Assistant OS in My Home Lab: Add-ons and Integrations

What my Home Assistant OS setup runs: add-ons, integrations, dashboards, and how it connects to the Proxmox cluster and certificate automation.

The live comment box on a hillnet.co.nz post, showing one existing comment and a reply form

Self-Hosted Hugo Comments with Private Gitea

How I built a secure, self-hosted comment system for Hugo using private Gitea as the backend, proxied safely through Nginx.

Diagram of the home lab suite: public site, LAN-only console, private Git server, knowledge base and the hypervisor cluster underneath

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.

Diagram of the acme.sh DNS-01 certificate automation across Cloudflare, Lets Encrypt, a local cert cache, and SSH push to internal hosts

Let's Encrypt for Internal Hosts with DNS-01 and SSH Push

How I replaced a dozen ad hoc certbot setups with one central acme.sh instance. It uses DNS-01 validation through Cloudflare and pushes each certificate to its host over SSH.

Diagram of the self-hosted mail flow through postscreen, milters, Dovecot, direct delivery and webmail

Self-Hosted Email: Running My Own Mail Server Again

How I moved my domain’s email from a hosted provider to a self-hosted Postfix and Dovecot server in my home lab, the design choices behind it, and what I learned along the way.