Home Lab Hardware Guide 2026: What to Buy, What to Avoid, and What to Beg For
2026 home lab hardware picks: N100/N150 mini PCs, used rack servers, NAS options, UPS, and switches — plus the power-draw math you need to justify the build.
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2026 home lab hardware picks: N100/N150 mini PCs, used rack servers, NAS options, UPS, and switches — plus the power-draw math you need to justify the build.
Self-host Nextcloud in Docker with persistent storage and a reverse proxy — your own Google Drive without the Google.
Move Docker images between hosts without a registry using docker save and docker load — air-gapped deployments made simple.
Wire up QSV, VAAPI, or NVENC in Immich so face recognition and thumbnails run on the GPU, not your CPU. Step-by-step for Intel, AMD, and Nvidia.
Get Caddy running as a reverse proxy in Docker — automatic HTTPS, Caddyfile config, and Docker Compose setup in under 10 minutes.
The official, no-nonsense way to install Docker Engine on Ubuntu and Debian — repository setup, key import, and one command to verify it works.
Generate code documentation with Doxygen without installing it — run it from a Docker container and get HTML docs from any codebase.
LazyLibrarian vs Readarr for ebook and audiobook automation in 2026 — why Readarr got retired, what to run instead, with real Docker Compose configs.
Disaster recovery for your Linux home lab — tiered backups, a restic script that actually runs, restore drills, and the gotchas that bite at 2 AM.
Automate Docker container deployment with shell scripts, cron, and Ansible — stop SSHing in and restarting things by hand.
Pixtral, Qwen3-VL, and Gemma 4 compared for local multimodal use in 2026. LLaVA is dead; here's what to run in Ollama for OCR, screenshots, and vision tasks.
NocoDB wraps any SQL database in a spreadsheet UI — self-host an Airtable alternative on top of MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite with Docker.