What is a Home Lab?
A home lab is your personal learning environment for technology. It's where you can experiment with servers, networking, virtualization, and more - all from the comfort of your home.
Why Start a Home Lab?
- Learn by doing - Hands-on experience beats theory every time
- Career growth - Practice enterprise technologies without risk
- Self-hosting - Run your own services and take control of your data
- Automation - Build skills in scripting and infrastructure as code
- It's fun! - There's something satisfying about building your own infrastructure
Where to Begin?
Getting started doesn't require expensive hardware. You can begin with:
- An old PC or laptop
- A Raspberry Pi
- Virtual machines on your current computer
- Cloud services (many offer free tiers)
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