About HomeLab HQ
Built by Data Extremes for people building homelabs—home servers and services to ditch endless subscriptions—in one opinionated hub of builds, templates, and quick tools.
What this site is
HomeLab HQ is a neon-dark knowledge hub with checklists, downloads, and guided projects. It is designed for fast ramp-up, repeatable builds, and safer exposure of lab services for anyone running personal servers at home to replace a pile of monthly app subscriptions.
For operators
Practical steps, fewer tabs. Each project links to real configs and templates you can drop into place for self-hosted media, backups, dashboards, and more.
For teams
Shared language and runbooks for deploying core services and keeping them healthy.
Contact
For questions, feedback, or suggestions, you can reach out to us at: [email protected]
Programs & apps we reference
Proxmox VE
Virtualization platform powering lab compute.
TrueNAS
ZFS-backed storage for backups and datasets.
Cloudflare Tunnel
Secure edge-to-lab publishing without open ports.
Nginx Proxy Manager
Simple reverse proxy UI and SSL automation.
Pi-hole
Network-wide DNS filtering and telemetry control.
Unbound
Recursive DNS resolver paired with Pi-hole.
Traefik
Edge router for Docker stacks with DNS-01 SSL.
Homepage
Dashboard for lab services and quick links.
Dozzle
Live container log viewer.
Watchtower
Automated Docker image updates.
Cloudflare Zero Trust
SSO + device checks for exposed services.