What I Host in My Homelab

When I started writing my blog I realized that I wanted to add comments. I considered using something like Disqus but was concerned by the number of ads I have heard they serve when you aren’t using an ad-blocker. I use an ad-blocker so I hadn’t seen that directly (at least not in recent memory) but given the choice I’d rather limit the intrusiveness of ads. With that in mind I looked for self-hosted comment systems to see what options there were. ...

For me, a homelab only truly comes to life once you start hosting applications on it. My previous homelab only ran a handful of applications and I basically ignored it. This incarnation already hosts several times as many and I make use of them almost every day. Setting up a hosting environment, be it Kubernetes, Proxmox, a Cloud environment such as Azure, AWS or GCP, or any other variety of VPS, PaaS or IaaS1 offerings is a good training exercise, but in my opinion one of the main points of a homelab is to host your own copies of applications that would otherwise require you to trust and pay2 others to do so. ...