Hardening the Home Edge: Why a $100 pfSense VM on Proxmox Beats Consumer Routers in Austin You can build a production-grade network edge for under one hundred dollars by virtualizing a pfSense firewall on your existing Proxmox cluster, provided you accept a slight increase in latency compared to a stock consumer router. In my lab…
Nolan Voss’s Lab: Best Home Network Monitoring Tools for Austin’s 2024 Network Conditions The Short Answer The single most effective network monitoring tool for a home lab environment in 2024 is the Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Machine Pro (UDM-Pro). In my Austin-based Proxmox cluster, this device offers the only combination of hardware-based packet capture, integrated intrusion…
Free PDF — 14 VPNs tested on a real Proxmox home lab in Austin, TX. Kill switch times, DNS leak results, and pfSense integration ratings.
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