The Homelab Decision Guide: A book about decisions, not commands. - Softcover

Da Luz, Victor

9798188863999: The Homelab Decision Guide: A book about decisions, not commands.

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ISBN 13: 9798188863999

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

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A homelab is a hobby, and the moment it stops being one, something has gone wrong.

This is not a click-by-click tutorial. Install commands rot, version numbers rot, screenshots rot fastest of all. This is a book about the decisions that don't: what to virtualize, how to segment a network so a smart plug can't reach your files, what deserves to be code and what deserves to be written down, and what's worth monitoring versus what's just noise with a dashboard.

What's inside:

Hardware: what to buy, what to wait on, and what a used enterprise machine actually costs you
Platform: Docker, Proxmox, or Kubernetes, and how to tell which one your lab needs
Network segmentation that survives contact with real devices, not just a diagram
Infrastructure as code: what to script, what to write down, and what to leave alone
Choosing services you'll actually use, and dropping the ones you won't
Backups that restore, not just run
Monitoring you don't eventually learn to ignore

Victor Da Luz built and rebuilt his own homelab through failed migrations, a DNS leak that took months to notice, and services nobody ever used. Every chapter opens with one of those failures, pulls the reusable questions out of it, and ends with a decision tree and an exercise for your own lab.

Ten worksheets. Real decision trees. Nothing to buy before you've decided you need it.

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