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DarkNode Guides
Small guides from a real homelab
Practical documentation and templates for self-hosted home servers. No fluff, no support theatre, no pretending this is a SaaS company.
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Self-Hosted Family Media Lab
A practical planning guide for building a home media server around Plex or Jellyfin.
- Hardware and network assumptions
- Service map and architecture
- Storage layout and path planning
- Remote access boundaries
- Backup and recovery checklists
- Common failure modes
- Unraid / NAS notes
- SVG diagrams and example configs
$9 USD
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Homelab Operations Vault for Obsidian
A pre-built Obsidian vault template for tracking your home lab: hosts, services, networks, storage, incidents — with dashboards and templates wired in.
- Folder structure for entities, concepts, incidents, runbooks
- Templates for hosts, services, networks, storage, incidents, and runbooks
- Dashboard with pre-written Dataview queries
- 7 sample populated notes showing a real lab
- Sample incident report and two runbooks
- Template placeholders for Dates and Titles
- Compatible with Obsidian core Templates plugin
- Free excerpt available
$15 USD
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