- I’m a self-taught developer from Australia with a passion for computers and tech. I design, architect, configure, monitor and secure sophisticated digital infrastructure on-premises and in the cloud, while maintaining practical experience across the full software stack.
Homelab Plan for 2026
As great as my homelab is, there’s still a ton of improvements I wanna make it to it for reliability, scalability and to learn new technologies, so lets go through them. 2026 is gonna be the year of upgrades, as I’ll be employed making probably around 2k per month depending on how many hours I work. Moving to Rackmount Hardware Not only would moving to a proper server rack (most likely this one) make it easier to add new compute nodes compared to the shelf all my hardware is currently on, it also looks way cooler. ...
Finally setting up onsite and offsite backups with PBS
I’ve been meaning to setup backups for a very very long time, so I figured it was finally time to setup a proper system with a Mini PC and 1TB NVMe SSD I had lying around. Hardware Changes I removed the bottom cover of my Mini PC then swapped out the original 256GB SSD and replaced it with a fresh 1TB one which is identical to the one in my live Proxmox node. ...
Setting up and securing a personal NTFY server
Ntfy is an absolutely amazing service for sending push notifications to your phone or other devices with a simple web request, I use it for alerts from my uptime monitor (HetrixTools) and ssh logins. Mine is hosted on a google cloud free tier e2 micro instance which gives me great reliability for free. Heres how to set it up with docker and proper authentication for personal use - you can find a guide on how to secure whatever Linux server your hosting this on here. ...
The state of my Homelab in 2025
Currently my Homelab is used to run services for personal use, my stuff exposed to the internet and VMs for friends or people in my local community. The original goal of this setup was to build a service that lets me cancel all of my vps subscriptions, which so far has succeeded, the next goal is to make the service as reliable or close to as reliable as a proper hosting provider. ...
How I host Linux VMs for people in my Homelab
A lot of my Homelab typically sits idle, wasting power. So I had the idea of letting other people run their own linux virtual machines on it, kinda like how gcp offers “spot” vms for much cheaper as it uses excess compute capacity. Obviously I can’t provide this as a paid service since that comes with a lot of liability and legal documents to protect yourself, so I just offer it as a free service for friends. ...