One of the main goals behind Realm Labs is to run as much as possible on infrastructure I control. That naturally led to an interesting question: Could I host the Realm Labs website from my own homelab without exposing the…
Monitoring started out fairly simply in Realm Labs. At first, checking system health meant opening the individual management interface for whatever device I wanted to inspect. Proxmox had one dashboard. Synology had another. Windows had Task Manager. Home Assistant had…
Proxmox VE is one of the core platforms behind Realm Labs. It provides the virtualisation layer for a growing collection of Linux containers, virtual machines, monitoring services and internal tools, all running from a single physical host. What started as…
Storage is one of those parts of a homelab that can quietly become critical without you really noticing it happening. At first, a NAS is somewhere to put files. Then a Raspberry Pi starts using it for backups. Docker applications…
Self hosting is one of the main reasons Realm Labs grew from a collection of individual devices into a proper homelab. Rather than installing every application directly onto whatever machine happened to be available, I gradually moved services into Docker…
