I spent an hour hunting down ram on Ebay and managed to get a bulk lot of 16gb sticks, and I didn't have to sell a kidney!

I just loaded it on my Beelink ME Pro unit and working out great. Check out the details here: Why Your NAS Is the Perfect Proxmox Backup Server #proxmox #homelab #homeserver https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2026/02/why-your-nas-is-the-perfect-proxmox-backup-server/

Does anyone take advantage of iDRAC or iLo on their server hardware?

I Bought a 10 Gig Switch to Fix My Proxmox Ceph Cluster and It Changed Everything #homelab #homeserver #proxmox https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2026/02/i-bought-a-10-gig-switch-to-fix-my-proxmox-ceph-cluster-and-it-changed-everything/

Anyone else using your homelab/self hosting capabilities to support a different hobby? I just started doing something new and thought I'd share it with you all. I've been an amateur (ham) radio operator since 1983. I recently found about 44net, which are blocks of public IPv4 addresses available to ham radio operators for ham radio related use. They can be used for pretty much anything ham radio, such as ham radio related websites, connections to radios for digital communications and so on. Nothing commercial or non-ham radio can be offered through this IP. I'll admit I know very very little about it so far, but went ahead and applied for my first IP which I received very quickly. I'm doing it through what I guess you call a side project to 44net called 44net Connect that provides your 44.x.x.x IP to you via a Wireguard tunnel. I needed to do it that way because I'm behind CGNAT. They provide the public end, you provide the end you're working from. I've been wanting to learn to make websites with the Hugo framework, so I set up a new VM on Proxmox (isolated from the rest of my LAN) for that. I installed nginx and Wireguard and connected my new public IP. I started setting up my first ham radio website, though there's very little there at the moment. That will change soon. You can see it at ka9phi.org. With the big winter storm approaching my area, I suspect I'll have more time than usual to devote to this for a few days. As a side note, I'm using a self hosted Wazuh instance to monitor security on this new site, just for extra learning and security.