The first homelab decision is the box, not the hypervisor. A used office desktop and a used mini PC can both run Proxmox. They fail in different ways. Used desktop Mini PC Buy the machine that matches the first three services you will actually run. Do not buy the machine that looks like a rack…
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HomeLab Forge is a notebook for building an affordable home lab. The goal is not a data center in a spare room. The goal is one reliable box that can run a few virtual machines, a file share, and later a small local AI model. I am starting with Linux, virtualization, and self-hosting because those…