Here we go!

Posted on September 3, 2023 • 2 min read • 308 words

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Hello everyone,

I am thrilled to live in a time when so much is happening technologically. From bulletin board systems and Datex-P with acoustic couplers, to the early Internet by modem, where you could only surf the few US websites in the morning until the East Coast of the US woke up and there was virtually no free bandwidth between Europe and America, to ISDN, to private fiber optic Gbit connections and Internet everywhere via mobile or satellite, the advances in technical communication have changed all of our lives dramatically. And as if that wasn’t enough, the age of artificial intelligence is now taking off. What more could you want?

What more do you want? A home lab, for example. Well, it’s actually less of a wish than a process. At some point, the computer is just fast enough to run the newly acquired programs tolerably well. So you decide to buy a new (less old) machine. But since the old computer is actually still ok, you buy two network cards, a switch, cables… And before you know it, you are the administrator of your own home lab.

And the opportunities to let off steam there are huge. In this blog, I would like to talk about my experiences, about what I use in my home lab, about stumbling blocks and solutions as well as little helpers. I mainly work in the Ubuntu Linux world, whether on the desktop or on a server. That’s why my reports on Docker, web servers, load balancing and databases are mostly located in this area. Based on the conviction that there are already very easy-to-follow instructions for quick installation out there, I will try to focus on problems beyond “Hello World!”.

I hope and would be pleased if there is something helpful for one or the other.

Have fun and greetings

Frank