If you’ve ever racked a server in your basement, spun up a Proxmox cluster on old hardware, or celebrated a flawless pfSense firewall setup at 2AM — we’ve got your new favorite community.
🧠 Introducing: Lab Rats – HomeLab Builders & Enthusiasts
We’ve launched a new Facebook group designed for IT pros, weekend tinkerers, sysadmins, homelab newbies, and full-blown infrastructure architects who share one thing in common: a love for building awesome stuff at home.
Whether you’re:
- Running 10+ VMs on a used Dell R720
- Setting up your first Raspberry Pi cluster
- Diving into Docker, ZFS, or WireGuard
- Or just trying to make your Wi-Fi suck less…
Lab Rats is the place for you.
🧰 What We’re All About:
“Lab Rats” isn’t just another tech group. We’re building a friendly, fun, and professional space where:
- You can show off your rack (no judgment on cable chaos)
- Ask smart or silly questions and get real answers
- Share and discover tools, dashboards, scripts, and gear
- Find help from people who’ve bricked and fixed it all
- Laugh at memes, cry at server reboots, and celebrate 99.99% uptime
💬 Topics We Cover
🛠️ Server Builds – Dell, HP, Supermicro, DIY
🔌 Networking – pfSense, VLANs, firewalls, Unifi, MikroTik
📦 Virtualization – Proxmox, Unraid, ESXi, KVM
🧪 Self-Hosting – Docker, Portainer, Nextcloud, Jellyfin
📡 Monitoring – Grafana, Zabbix, Cockpit
💾 NAS/Storage – TrueNAS, ZFS, RAID setups
🧰 Automation – Ansible, Home Assistant, cron jobs
😅 And of course… homelab disasters & recoveries!
🌍 Who Should Join?
This group is for:
- IT professionals with enterprise know-how
- Tinkerers who love secondhand gear
- Sysadmins building home DCs
- Students diving into infrastructure
- Anyone who googled “What is a homelab?”
Whether you’re a veteran builder or just learning what “rack unit” means — you belong here.
🎉 Come Be a Lab Rat
Tech should be fun. Labs should be messy. And everyone should have a place to grow their skills and share their nerdy setups without gatekeeping or noise.
👉 Click here to join “Lab Rats: HomeLab Builders & Enthusiasts”
Bring your build logs. Bring your chaos. Bring your brains.
Let’s build the future… one blinking LED at a time. 💡
