Guides

Installing Ubuntu Server

From USB stick to a server that runs headless: verified image, the installer screen by screen, a pinned IP, automatic updates and a firewall.

7 min read

Installing Docker

The official repository rather than Ubuntu's, the compose plugin, and the six commands that are enough to run a home lab.

6 min read

Installing Proxmox VE

The most used hypervisor in home labs: who it is actually for, the install, the repositories you must fix or nothing ever updates, and backups.

10 min read

Setting up a reverse proxy

Readable names and HTTPS instead of six ports to remember: Nginx Proxy Manager, Let's Encrypt, and the “Internal Error” waiting for everyone.

5 min read

Opening a port on your router

A generic guide, whatever the router. Including the CGNAT test to run FIRST, and what an open port actually costs you.

7 min read

Setting up Cloudflare Tunnel

Reach your self-hosted services over HTTPS without opening a single port on your router, and without a reverse proxy to maintain. Including what it actually costs.

5 min read

Updating your containers without breaking anything

Pin your versions, read the notes, back up first — and why automatic updates are bad advice, Watchtower having been archived at the end of 2025.

4 min read

Backing up your server properly

The 3-2-1 rule, restic to Swiss Backup over Swift, the retention that saves you from ransomware — and the restore, tried before you need it.

6 min read

Installing Ollama on your server

The container, the graphics card handed to Docker, and the most copy-pasted command on the internet — the one that opens your model to the whole network.

4 min read