Complete guide to deploying PostgreSQL 16 with Docker Compose in your homelab — persistent volumes, health checks, pgvector extension, automated pg_dump backups, replication, and performance tuning.
Migrate Docker containers between homelab hosts with minimal downtime. Covers volume backup and restore, image export/import, Compose stack portability, and rsync-based data transfer strategies.
Step-by-step guide to deploying Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) on a homelab — from installation to automation, encryption, remote sync, and restore testing.
Deploy Immich as a self-hosted Google Photos alternative with Docker Compose — PostgreSQL, Redis, hardware-accelerated transcoding, ML-based search, and Traefik reverse proxy for secure remote access.
A practical guide to ZFS pool design and performance tuning for Proxmox homelabs — topology selection, ashift, recordsize, compression, ARC sizing, and real-world monitoring with arcstat and zpool iostat.
A practical guide to Linux disk I/O performance tuning for homelab servers — IO scheduler selection for NVMe, SSD, and HDD, mount option optimization, real-time monitoring with iostat and ioping, and container IO throttling with cgroup v2.
Set up centralized NFS shared storage for your Proxmox homelab with Docker volume mounts, LXC bind mounts, and performance tuning — practical configs for backup storage, media libraries, and container data.
Master Proxmox LXC resource management — configure CPU pinning with cgroups, set memory and swap limits, throttle disk I/O, and apply ZFS quotas to prevent noisy-neighbor contention in your homelab containers.
Design a bulletproof backup strategy for your Proxmox homelab — vzdump scheduling, Proxmox Backup Server deployment, 3-2-1 rule with off-site replication, and automated restore testing.
Learn to benchmark storage in your homelab using fio, ioping, hdparm, and dd — raw disks, ZFS pools, NFS mounts, and Docker volumes. Includes repeatable test scripts and how to interpret results for real-world workloads.