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Minimalist vector illustration of a home lab server and a closed laptop on a desk in a dim room. A translucent floating update list shows one item highlighted in amber with a matching warning triangle icon above it.

The Update Conundrum

I started my home lab in 2021. It began with some basic Home Assistant automations and, over the last few years, has spiralled into a proper stack of VMs and… 

A technical isometric illustration showing three stacked layers of virtualisation: a physical motherboard base, a middle layer of solid blocks for Virtual Machines, and a top layer of glowing wireframe cubes for containers.

Hypervisor, VM, LXC and Docker: A Simple Guide

When you first get into self-hosting, the jargon can hit you all at once. Hypervisors, VMs, LXC, Docker/Podman. People talk about them as if they are interchangeable, but they are…