Six real-world guides for your homelab
I have been running a self-hosted stack — Home Assistant, Frigate NVR, Proxmox, pfSense and TrueNAS — for years. The hard part was never the install. It was the pitfalls: a backup that never restored, a Coral TPU that would not pass through, a firewall rule that silently locked me out.
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So I wrote it all down — the exact commands, the configuration files and the failure modes that cost weeks to find.
The guides
- Home Assistant — from a blank box to a dashboard you use daily
- Frigate NVR — cameras, AI detection and Coral TPU done right
- Proxmox — backups and disaster recovery that actually restore
- Security — hardening your self-hosted stack
- pfSense — firewall and network defense
- NAS and off-site backup — your data survives a fire
Every guide comes with copy-paste templates. Start with the free Starter Checklist.
