If you have one or more servers that need to always be available and ready for action, how do you keep track of uptime? How can you receive alerts to notify you when there’s an issue? In this episode, Tom and Jay discuss some of the tools they use to monitor servers and important metrics.
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The Homelab Show Episode 63 – Troubleshooting
In this episode of The Homelab Show, Jay and Tom discuss troubleshooting. This includes physical troubleshooting, VM troubleshooting, tools, tips and more. This is definitely an episode you won’t want to miss.
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The Homelab Show Episode 61 – Mimic 3
In this episode, Jay and Tom discuss Mycroft’s Mimic 3, some new developments around TrueNAS and pfsense, and more!
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The Homelab Show Episode 48: /dev/random
In episode 48 of The Homelab Show, Jay and Tom discuss some homelab tips and picks that are sure to give you some inspiration for your own homelab. Many topics are discussed, such as ways to organize your devices, using external mounts for app data, and more!
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The Homelab Show Episode 47 – CrowdSec & Using Open Source Threat Intelligence
Threat intelligence solutions are often very expensive, and some of these are way too pricey to even be a consideration for homelabs. In this video, Tom and Jay discuss CrowdSec. CrowdSec is a free an easy to install security solution that can enable you to quickly benefit from threat intelligence to help protect your servers.
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The Homelab Show Episode 46: /dev/Q&A
Fans of The Homelab Show have sent in questions, and Tom and Jay provide some answers and feedback.
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The Homelab Show Episode 45 – Yubikey
Securing your online profiles is also important to homelabbers, as it can offer a strong second factor for authentication. In this episode, Jay and Tom talk about the Yubikey and the various models available.
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The Homelab Show Episode 43: Questions & Answers
It’s time for yet another Q&A episode of The Homelab Show. In this episode, Jay and Tom answer your questions about networking, security, and more!
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The Homelab Show Episode 41 – Network Segmentation
Networking is often a difficult subject for newcomers, as some of the concepts are not always the easiest to explain. Since networking is an important element of homelab, it’s definitely something you’ll want to focus on. Network segmentation in particular can give you a foundation on which to build better security rules, but how do you implement it? What’s the actual benefit of segmentation? In this episode, Jay and Tom discuss some foundational concepts around network segmentation specific to homelab.
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Proxmox Backup Server: Full Getting Started Guide!
Proxmox Backup Server is a custom Linux distro that you can run on your server to have it serve as a backup endpoint. It integrates quickly and easily with Proxmox Virtual Environment, making it a great solution to back up your virtual machines and containers. In addition to that, it can also be used to store non-VM backups too, so running Proxmox Virtual Environment is NOT a requirement. In this video, I’ll teach you everything you need in order to get started with Proxmox Backup Server.
You can download the Proxmox Backup Server ISO image from here. Also, feel free to check out the official documentation pages to learn even more.
Be sure to check out the Proxmox Full Course for Virtual Environment here if you haven’t already.
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The Homelab Show Episode 30 – Q and A
In episode number 30 of The Homelab Show, Tom and I answer a handful of great questions that were recently sent in.
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