My Homelab Journey

The Beginning: Scratching an Itch My homelab journey didn’t start with grand ambitions. It began with the desire to watch TV on my netbook (remember those?), when I was bored in computing classes at high school and 6th form. Ever the stringent professional, I know… This was back in the days where Netflix would send out DVDs, and the little netbook didn’t have a DVD drive! I did, however, have one of those old school Mac Minis with a DVD drive. That meant I had options. I could watch the DVDs, great, but when I was away from home? Zilch. ...

March 17, 2025 · 5 min · Josh J

Docker Routing - Incorrect IP Address Detected by Traefik

The Problem Let’s say you have a container, say for example that it’s a container you rely on to store and sync a lot of your data. Say that one day, you notice that all of your devices stop syncing and throw time out errors. Say that you’re quite frustrated with this because to a certain extent, this container stack was supposed to be set and forget. Say that you go to the web GUI and you see this: ...

May 5, 2020 · 3 min · Josh J