Network Network Labs on a Budget "Can you suggest some specs for a server for my network labs?" is probably the question I get Suresh Vinasiththamby Oct 26, 2025 13 min read
Homelab Immich Setup with Docker & External Library (NFS) Recently, I started self-hosting most of the apps I use, like Memos for note-taking and Paperless-NGX for document management. The Suresh Vinasiththamby Jul 19, 2025 5 min read
Homelab UGreen NASync DXP2800 Review and First Impressions TL;DR - For anyone who doesn’t want to go through the full post, here’s the short version. Suresh Vinasiththamby Jun 8, 2025 7 min read
Homelab Configuring VLANs on UniFi Switches I’ve worked with Cisco, Arista, and Juniper switches most of my life, but when I first started using UniFi Suresh Vinasiththamby May 17, 2025 7 min read
Homelab Tailscale VPN - A Network Engineer's Perspective Before we get into what Tailscale is or how it compares to a traditional remote access VPN, let’s take Suresh Vinasiththamby Mar 9, 2025 13 min read
Homelab Paperless-ngx Self-Hosted Document Manager At the moment, most of my documents are stored in Google Drive and locally on my machine. Whenever I need Suresh Vinasiththamby Feb 3, 2025 5 min read
Homelab Setting up Proxmox Backup Server If you follow my blog, you may know that I recently migrated to Proxmox as my hypervisor, and I absolutely Suresh Vinasiththamby Feb 2, 2025 8 min read
Homelab Running Unifi Network Application in Docker As of January 2024, the linuxserver/unifi-controller Docker image has been deprecated and is no longer receiving updates. This means Suresh Vinasiththamby Feb 1, 2025 4 min read
AI Using the Continue VSCode Extension and Local LLMs for Improved Coding Welcome back to another post on local LLMs. In this post, we’ll look at setting up a fully local Suresh Vinasiththamby Jan 30, 2025 4 min read
AI Using Ollama with a Web-Based GUI When I first started using local LLMs with Ollama, I quickly realised it relies on a command-line interface to interact Suresh Vinasiththamby Jan 30, 2025 5 min read
AI Running Large Language Models (LLM) on Your Own Machine Using Ollama I’m going to start by saying I’m totally new to LLMs and running them locally, so I’m Suresh Vinasiththamby Jan 30, 2025 7 min read
Homelab Running EVE-NG in Proxmox If you follow my blogs, you might know that I recently switched to Proxmox from VMware Workstation Pro for my Suresh Vinasiththamby Jan 21, 2025 4 min read
Homelab Running Cisco CML in Proxmox For the past few years, I’ve been running all my virtual machines on VMware Workstation Pro, installed on Windows Suresh Vinasiththamby Dec 21, 2024 5 min read
Homelab Caddy Reverse Proxy With Docker I currently run multiple Docker containers across two hosts, each hosting various applications on different ports. UniFi Controller exposes the Suresh Vinasiththamby Oct 22, 2024 5 min read
Homelab Adding Palo Alto PA-440 to My Home Lab When I started my home lab, I used a Raspberry Pi 4 that functioned as a router/firewall, and I Suresh Vinasiththamby Oct 5, 2024 4 min read
Homelab How to Run UniFi Controller in Docker? Recently, I bought a UniFi USW-Lite-8-PoE switch and wanted to host my own controller. UniFi does offer a cloud-hosted controller, Suresh Vinasiththamby Apr 15, 2024 3 min read
Homelab MikroTik WireGuard VPN Configuration Example In today's blog post, we're diving into a practical guide on setting up WireGuard VPN on Suresh Vinasiththamby Jan 22, 2024 4 min read
Homelab MikroTik Initial Configurations and Setup (hAP AX2) In today's post, we're going to dive into setting up your MikroTik router. I'm Suresh Vinasiththamby Jan 22, 2024 7 min read