Small Server Lab

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I’m Mark, and my homelab is small: a few machines on a shelf, most of them more than ten years old, doing real jobs every day. Backups, networking, home services, and a lot of tinkering.

Small Server Lab is where I write down what I’ve learned running it: what works, what broke, what it costs to keep running, and what I’d buy if I were starting today.

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Questions: hello@smallserverlab.com.

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