// 4 posts
August 29, 2026·10 min read
I priced my homelab as if I had to rent it — 22 Proxmox guests and a six-node k3s cluster, live numbers, August 2026. On-demand AWS came to $49,452 a year. The electricity bill it replaces is $274.
August 18, 2026·21 min read
Eleven months after three mini PCs first said Ready: three control planes, a six-day outage nobody noticed, a hardware diagnosis that was completely wrong, and what the whole cluster actually cost.
August 16, 2026·14 min read
Turning on the Intel vPro silicon that six second-hand office PCs had been carrying, unused, the whole time — and flashing their firmware from across the house.
September 28, 2025·3 min read
Building a Kubernetes cluster at home on three second-hand HP EliteDesk Minis for $240 — the hardware that fought back, and the K3s install that finally took.