My Homelab wiki146Lab https://labwiki.maceys.net/index.php?title=Main_Page MediaWiki 1.46.0 first-letter Media Special Talk User User talk My Homelab My Homelab talk File File talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk Template Template talk Help Help talk Category Category talk Widget Widget talk GeoJson GeoJson talk Module Module talk 0 1 1561 1560 2026-08-21T01:43:11Z Lynn 3 1561 wikitext text/x-wiki __NOTOC__ =Introduction= This wiki covers my journey toward the perfect Homelab/Home server for me. This likely is not the perfect one for you. I am a retired IP professional who spent 45 years in the trenches doing much this same work and got paid for it. Now I do it for fun and, face it, it keeps off of the streets and out of jail. [[How did I get here?]] I have been through a lot of hardware, software and solutions over the years. As of now, I am regretting scrapping some of the hardware that arrived over time. I don't feel bad about getting rid of the large 1U and 2U servers that I had at one time. They were not terribly fast, but very noisy and power hungry. After my wife and I downsized from a medium sized house to a 2 BR apartment, it made no sense to keep them. Yes, they were fun to tinker with, but they were also a sledgehammer to the fine task that I was attempting to accomplish. [[The Network and Home Servers]] I have been through a number of solution packages getting to where I am, and I am largely still looking. Hopefully I will be able to declare success in the relatively near future... Like many of you I started out with discrete tools as I was learning how to use Docker. I am not sure how I would get along without this tool. Below I will list what I feel are the strengths and weaknesses of the configurations that I have tried. To a large degree, if you starting out building a home lab, you need to have the ability to manage the configuration that you pt together because generally none of them are a perfect solution. One of the common problems since the developers are likely to be home hobbyists like ourselves, The projects tend to stall out after a while. The developer moves on or experiences people being demanding, ungrateful and sometimes just plain nasty. I have been willing, and happy, to pay them subscription fees to fund their efforts. These are usually modest, typically equivalent to two or three lattes a month. Getting traction on their part is often difficult and reaching critical mass generally doesn't happen. I recognize that most of these people have real jobs and developing the code is just a side gig that helps to pay the electric bill and buy some hardware. So, with that, let me tell you how I got to here. [[The Homelab Stack History]] The stack implementation progression has been SimpleHomeLab, Funky Penguin, YAMS and then Deployrr. I am now working with The TrueNAS-Compose suite. I have tried to give a reasoned top-level assessment of the good and bad aspects of the tool on the assessment page. [[The assessments are here]] For more of a deep dive deep dive into them just head over here: [[Technical details are here]] Consult the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Contents User's Guide] for information on using the wiki software. == Getting started == * [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Configuration_settings Configuration settings list] * [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:FAQ MediaWiki FAQ] * [https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/mediawiki-announce.lists.wikimedia.org/ MediaWiki release mailing list] * [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Localisation#Translation_resources Localise MediaWiki for your language] * [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Combating_spam Learn how to combat spam on your wiki] 0ixvcf5dcvkt33ns5thqw575a942s1x