I've participated in a lot of the home surveillance threads both here in DIY, as well as in AV. I haven't seen it come up in a while, but I've been meaning to post my experiences for a while now. I ...

Self-hosting your data and services with Network Attached Storage (NAS) is a great way to free yourself from the spiraling costs and tangled web of subscription fees. Whether you’re simply looking to ...

But what about Single-Board Computers that cost less than $100? While it’s kind of a disaster on Arm systems, x86 boards are fair game. Source? Yours truly, who uses a spare Radxa X4-based Proxmox ...

We need a DIY home ESXi server guide. I swear I've seen a dozen home ESXi threads scattered across all the forums over the past month. It is a reasonably complex task, trying to identify what hardware ...

We haven’t checked in with FreeNAS , the FreeBSD-based DIY NAS OS, in quite some time. The OS has been completely overhauled, plugin support has been added, and it now works with even more hardware.

What better way to add a geeky touch to #vanlife than with a Linux server in your RV? One easily could make the strong argument that an RV is the ultimate DIY project playground. It combines all of ...