About Project Homelab
Project Homelab is a free, community-written guide to building and running a homelab. It helps you spend less time deciding and more time labbing and learning.
Where it came from
Section titled “Where it came from”Project Homelab was forked from the defunct Open Homelab Project in July 2020. Open Homelab was falling into disarray, and homelabbing matters to us, so we kept it going and set out to expand and update it.
The original Open Homelab Project started as a roundtable discussion at the London VMUG in April 2016. The people who got it off the ground are listed on the founders page.
From 2020 to 2026 the site ran as a MediaWiki wiki. In 2026 it moved to its current form, where articles live as plain Markdown files on GitHub, so anyone can suggest an improvement and nothing goes live without review.
Why it exists
Section titled “Why it exists”Homelab talks are some of the most popular sessions at technical user groups. Unless they’re recorded, though, what was said is gone at the end of the day, and only the people in the room benefit. Project Homelab collects that knowledge in one place, so you can make decisions based on your own requirements rather than whatever the last forum thread recommended.
The project started in a VMware user group, but a homelab is a homelab. We want contributions across operating systems, hypervisors, networking, storage and tools, whatever vendor they come from.
Sponsor
Section titled “Sponsor”Hosting is sponsored by NodeSpace, a hosting provider that believes in homelabbing and offers services that help homelabbers extend their home network to the internet safely.
Disclaimer
Section titled “Disclaimer”Everything here is written by volunteers and provided as is. It reflects the experience of individual contributors and may be out of date by the time you read it. Check vendor documentation before you buy hardware or change a system you rely on, and never test on production systems you don’t own.
Only legitimately licensed software and methods belong on this site. Articles that describe getting around licensing, piracy or license-key workarounds will be removed. That rule protects the long-term future of the project.
Links to vendors and retailers are there because a contributor found them useful, not because we’re paid for them. If you spot something that looks like advertising, report it.