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Homelab Journal // Network Security Engineer

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Lessons and Insights

Chronological updates from my homelab journey. These are more personal and narrative than the structured wiki or tutorials.

2026

Migrating from Speedtest Tracker to MySpeed

Overview # I migrated my internet speed monitoring from Speedtest Tracker to MySpeed after learning that Speedtest Tracker was deprecating native Discord notifications. Rather than adding an Apprise sidecar container for notifications, I opted for MySpeed which has built-in Discord support. Why Migrate? # Factor Speedtest Tracker MySpeed Stack Laravel/PHP Node.js Discord Deprecated (needs Apprise) Native support Complexity nginx + php-fpm + SQLite Single Docker container Updates Manual WUD opt-in monitoring Architecture Comparison #

2025

Welcome to My Homelab Journal

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The Beginning # Every homelab starts somewhere. Mine started with a Raspberry Pi running Pi-hole because I was tired of ads on my smart TV. That was three years ago. Today, I’m running a 4-node Proxmox cluster with 50+ containers, enterprise-grade networking, centralized logging, and more automation than I probably need. Somewhere along the way, I realized I should write this down.