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:
Middleware is the second most important building block of Traefik after routers. In this article I break down what it is, why it’s needed, how it’s applied, what a chain is, and I go through all the middlewares from the open-source version of Traefik with the configuration examples I use myself.
A detailed guide to installing and configuring Traefik in an LXC container to set up a reverse proxy. Covers Docker setup, routing configuration, SSL integration, and recommendations for managing web traffic.
A complete guide to installing and configuring Proxmox Backup Server 4.2.0 for building a reliable backup system for Proxmox VE virtual machines and containers.
A detailed overview of Authentik - an open-source system for centralized authentication and authorization (IdP/SSO). We’ll cover why IAM solutions are needed, the architecture, key features, and a comparison with alternatives.
A detailed look at TOTP, WebAuthn, passkeys, and Passwordless Login: how they work, their strengths and weaknesses, and recommendations for choosing the right technology for logging into your services.
A step-by-step guide to installing and configuring Authelia in Docker - deployment, 2FA configuration, Traefik integration via forwardAuth, and a breakdown of the main config parameters.
An overview of the advantages and disadvantages of virtualizing a router (OPNsense, pfSense, MikroTik CHR) in Proxmox VE - when it’s worth it and when it’s better to keep dedicated hardware.
