Homelab Beginner Guide 2026: How to Get Started Right
Want to start a homelab but don’t know where to begin? See which hardware is enough, how to install Proxmox and which services are worth setting up first.
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Mini PC for Homelab: Which Minisforum Fits Your Setup
Which mini PC fits your homelab? See what the Minisforum MS-01, MS-A2 and N5 Pro can handle and where their limits are. I run four of them around the clock with Proxmox in Berlin and France.
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Pi-hole on Proxmox LXC: Block Ads on Your Whole Network
Pi-hole blocks ads and trackers for every device on your home network, including smart TVs and phones. Here’s how to set up Pi-hole 6 in a small Proxmox LXC with blocklists, upstream DNS and the common pitfalls.
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Plex Hardware Transcoding: Intel Arc A310 in a Proxmox LXC
Here’s how to let Plex transcode on an Intel Arc A310 inside a Proxmox LXC, from passing through /dev/dri to picking the GPU. Before that, I moved all my media containers to the node with 10 GbE.
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Self-Host Stirling-PDF: Your Own iLovePDF Alternative
Merge, redact, OCR or compress PDFs without your documents ending up on someone else’s website. Here’s how to set up Stirling-PDF on Proxmox or with Docker.
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Migrate a Proxmox LXC with Bind Mounts Using shared=1
Your LXC with a NAS bind mount won’t migrate until you mark the mount point as shared. Plus offline migration, GPU paths, and how to get the bind mount back after a pct restore.
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Homelab Across Two Sites: Berlin and France Overview
Four Proxmox servers, two countries, one network over Tailscale. Which hardware sits where, which services run, how the sites connect, and where to find the detailed guides.
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MCP in the Homelab: Connect Claude to Your Servers Safely
Here’s how to connect Claude to Proxmox, UniFi and Paperless through MCP without exposing your servers to the internet. My calendar and WHOOP are hooked up too, each MCP server isolated in its own LXC.
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Proxmox CPU Governor Powersave: Fix a Hot Idle Mini PC
Your Proxmox mini PC gets hot at almost zero load? My i9-13900H hit 88 °C because the governor was set to performance. Here’s how to switch to powersave without a reboot and make it permanent.
