ProHomeLab — a blog about self-hosting and homelab

ProHomeLab is open to authors who want to share their knowledge and practical experience in the world of homelabbing. If you’re building your own home infrastructure, experimenting with servers, virtualization, containers, networking, NAS, monitoring, or automation, I’d love to feature your experience on the site. It doesn’t matter how big your home lab is. What matters isn’t the number of servers in the rack, but real experience, interesting solutions, and knowledge worth sharing with others. What you can write about # The topics ProHomeLab covers are fairly broad. For example:

Setting up Gotify in Docker and configuring push notifications from Proxmox VE, CrowdSec, and Komodo - a dedicated channel for infrastructure events, without a single message in the shared Telegram chat.

Going over the real limitations of Podman: networking and ports in rootless mode, incomplete Docker Compose compatibility, a VM standing in for the promised daemonless setup on macOS/Windows, no multi-host orchestration, a less mature ecosystem, and a steeper learning curve for newcomers.

Breaking down a real case: after moving to a dedicated Docker network per compose stack, I hit the could not find an available, non-overlapping IPv4 address pool limit. Why this happens, how to diagnose it, and how to fix it for good via default-address-pools in daemon.json.

An overview of Arcane - a young but fast-growing web interface for Docker - and a step-by-step guide to installation, configuring secrets, connecting existing compose projects, and basic socket protection.

A step-by-step overview of Dozzle - a lightweight self-hosted tool for viewing Docker container logs in real time through a web interface. Installation via Docker Compose, setting up authentication, multi-host mode via agents, and recommendations for docker.sock security.