It's also great for learning how to manage a server and expand your homelab setup as you look to add functionality.

Use Wake-on-LAN functionality and consider downsizing server hardware to maximize efficiency. Building a new home lab is quite exciting, and if youve got the heart of a tinkerer, youll have even ...

The same sort of feature creep sneaks into some of the more popular self-hosted home server platforms as well, with things like openHAB requiring so much computing power that they barely function ...