Planning

Starting a Homelab the Right Way - With the Why

There’s a pattern I’ve noticed in Homelab culture: people start with hardware.

Racks of it. Blinking lights, enterprise gear pulled from datacenters, computing clusters before identifying a single problem they’re trying to solve.

It looks impressive, but it skips the most critical step: intent. If you want to start a Homelab the right way, you start with intent. I like shiny things as much as the next person, and this lesson took me more than twenty years to fully understand.

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