Straightforward explanations of complex IT concepts, helping small businesses understand technology without the jargon.
If you’ve spent any time in the home lab community, you’ll have noticed one question that keeps popping up on Reddit, forums, Discord servers, and YouTube comments: “Should I run this in Docker or an LXC container?” It’s a fair question. After all, both technologies use containers, both are lightweight compared to virtual machines, and both can run your favourite applications. So surely they’re basically the same thing? Well… not quite. While Docker and Proxmox LXC […]
The HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9 remains one of the most popular enterprise servers available on the UK refurbished hardware market. Despite being several generations old, the DL380 Gen9 continues to offer exceptional performance, reliability and flexibility for organisations looking to deploy virtualisation platforms without the expense of modern enterprise hardware. Combined with Proxmox Virtual Environment […]
Identity has become the backbone of modern security architecture. As organisations move away from traditional on-premises infrastructure and adopt cloud services, SaaS applications, and distributed systems, the need for robust Identity and Access Management (IAM) has never been greater. Two popular but fundamentally different solutions in this space are JumpCloud and Authentik. While both aim […]
Installing LocalAI as a Stack on Portainer (with NVIDIA GPU Support & Preloaded Models) Running local AI models has become a practical alternative to cloud APIs, especially for privacy, cost control, and compliance. With tools like LocalAI, you can host your own AI inference server and expose it via an OpenAI-compatible API fully under your […]
