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34 tutorials tagged homelab
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Monitor Your Homelab with Uptime Kuma — Part 2: Notifications & Alerts
Get alerted the moment a service goes down. Add Pushover and Discord notification channels to Uptime Kuma and enable them across your existing monitors.
uptime-kuma · monitoring · homelab
~25 minDifficulty: beginner
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Monitor Your Homelab with Uptime Kuma — Part 1: Install & First Monitors
Install Uptime Kuma on a Proxmox LXC container, set up five monitor types (Ping, HTTP, Keyword, TCP, DNS), and simulate failures to see which monitor catches what.
uptime-kuma · monitoring · homelab
~25 minDifficulty: beginner
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Excalidraw on Proxmox 9 VE LXC
Excalidraw is a free, open-source virtual whiteboard web application for creating hand-drawn style diagrams and sketches. This guide covers installing it on Proxmox VE 9 in an LXC container with a production build.
proxmox · self-hosted · homelab
~9 minDifficulty: intermediate
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Caddy Installation Guide for Proxmox LXC
Step-by-step guide to installing Caddy as a reverse proxy in a Proxmox VE 9 LXC container with Debian 13, including DNS challenge setup with Cloudflare for valid SSL certificates.
proxmox · caddy · reverse-proxy
~9 minDifficulty: intermediate
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Complete Proxmox Backup Server Setup
Learn how to set up Proxmox Backup Server from scratch and connect it to your Proxmox VE cluster for automated, production-ready backups with storage configuration, intelligent backup scheduling, smart retention policies, and user authentication.
proxmox · proxmox-backup-server · backup
~15 minDifficulty: advanced
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Pi-hole v6 Installation Guide for Proxmox LXC
This guide provides step-by-step instructions for installing Pi-hole v6.2.2 on Proxmox VE 9 as an LXC container with a static IP address.
proxmox · pihole · dns
~9 minDifficulty: intermediate
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Proxmox Backup Server 4: First Boot Setup
This guide provides manual steps to configure Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) 4.0.11 after installation. These steps are based on the community post-install helper script but written out manually for better understanding and documentation.
proxmox · proxmox-backup-server · backup
~6 minDifficulty: beginner
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Proxmox VE 9 Three-Node Cluster Setup
This guide replicates what the Proxmox VE Helper Scripts post-install script does, but manually via CLI so each step is understood. Then it covers setting up a 3-node cluster.
proxmox · virtualization · homelab
~9 minDifficulty: intermediate
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ComfyUI System Monitor
Crystools is a "Swiss Army knife" toolkit that adds monitoring, debugging, and workflow organization tools to ComfyUI.
local-ai · comfyui · monitoring
~3 minDifficulty: beginner
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Proxmox Post-Install Script
Automate essential Proxmox VE post-installation tasks with a single community-maintained script. This eliminates manual configuration and gets your system production-ready in minutes.
proxmox · homelab
~12 minDifficulty: beginner
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Installing Proxmox VE
A straightforward guide to installing Proxmox Virtual Environment on bare metal hardware. This guide covers the essentials to get you up and running quickly with Proxmox VE 9.0.
proxmox · homelab
~12 minDifficulty: beginner
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Booting a VM from USB in Proxmox
Learn how to pass through a physical USB device to a Proxmox VM and configure it to boot from that USB drive.
proxmox · virtualization · homelab
~10 minDifficulty: intermediate