Home Lab, Humble Beginnings

How It Started Back in 2017, I was using this k8s distribution called Typhoon, hosted over at DigitalOcean. This was only for experimentation and I never really ended up hosting anything there. Around 2020, I started hosting a small Pi-hole setup for DNS-based ad filtering, installed on my raspbery pi. But this was also short lived and I turned it off after a year. Learning from my last two setups, I wanted to start fresh and build something which is easy to maintain. I also want to start hosting some applications which I use on a regular basis. I am trying to be pragmatic, on what to self host and what to not. ...

April 29, 2026 · 8 min · Tasdik Rahman