Alex's Homelab Blog

In time for the end of 2025 start of 2026, I thought I would revisit the post I made 2 years ago at the very end of 2023, which went over what is in my homelab.

I have just relaunched this blog; it is now hosted at home.

Recently some friends and I discussed the likelihood of Linux being used by "regular" (non-technical) people.

Over the course of 2023, my homelab has grown a fair bit so I thought it'd be at good opportunity to give an overview of what is running and how it's been setup.

Over the last couple of years I have tried to de-google as much as I can, particularly from my phone, which has been (and will continue to be for the foreseeable future) the biggest point of data collection for the excessive advertisements.

In what may end up being a bit of a feature, I'm going to document things I've learnt as I use Linux more and more in daily (work) life.

Like a lot of people, I made a move over to Mastodon from primarily using Twitter after the sale to a certain billionaire and resulting chaos and redundancies.

Google has great product suite, but the cost of it is an obscene amount of data.

The best start with homelabs will always be improving the home network: it’ll be used by the entire household, and if expansion into home servers or any of the other fun stuff is no longer wanted, there’s no need to roll it back.