Welcome to prohomelab.com — a website where experience and knowledge in homelab and IT infrastructure are collected and organized. If something is explained too quickly or not very systematically in a video, you’ll find detailed guides and tutorials here:
- installation and configuration of server applications (Nextcloud, Proxmox, Docker, Traefik, and others)
- reviews of self-hosting solutions
- tips on virtualization, backups, security, and automation
The project is not intended to be just a personal knowledge archive. It is also being built with the goal of becoming, together with the community, a knowledge base for beginners, aspiring developers, and anyone building their own IT infrastructure at home.
If you’d like to help contribute to the blog or share your experience — all contact details can be found in the description.
About Me#
There was a time when Pixar was making animated masterpieces. In their movie Ratatouille, the recurring idea was that anyone can cook. We’re not in a cartoon, but my experience makes essentially the same point: if you have the desire and your brain is still working, anyone can get into homelabbing without a formal IT background.
It may seem strange, but I have absolutely nothing to do with the IT world professionally — my education is entirely in the humanities. However, I’ve always been interested in IT. At one point, like many beginners, I had a Synology NAS. Pretty quickly, I found its capabilities limiting. My next NAS was a self-built server running Nas4Free (now known as XigmaNAS). And that was it — I was hooked. When I moved to the beautiful and incredibly convenient TrueNAS Core (compared to XigmaNAS, of course), stopping me became practically impossible.
There was virtually no information on managing this operating system in the Russian-speaking part of the internet (and there still isn’t, apart from a couple of my own videos). So I had an idea: “Why not start making videos about configuring and using TrueNAS Core?” Of course, while I was gathering the courage to get started — with absolutely no experience — TrueNAS Scale was released… and look where it led me!
