Virtualising My Home Lab: Running Proxmox as the Foundation of Realm Labs

Introduction As a home lab grows, simply installing software directly onto physical machines quickly becomes difficult to manage. Applications need different environments, testing becomes risky, and hardware resources are often underused. The solution was to introduce virtualisation. Proxmox became the foundation that allows Realm Labs to run multiple isolated systems on shared hardware while keeping …

Self Hosting at Home: Running Services with Docker and Portainer

Introduction One of the biggest changes in Realm Labs was moving from installing applications directly onto individual machines to running services in containers. Docker completely changed the way I approach self-hosting. Instead of dedicating an entire computer or virtual machine to a single application, containers allow multiple services to run efficiently while remaining separated and …