How to Build a Home lab

Practical advice and discussion on software & hardware options

A $600M professional datacentre — not the kind you can have in your basement (photo by Google LLC)

Have you ever wanted to replicate a more complex IT environment and your laptop’s CPU, memory, or disk wasn’t enough? Or maybe you thought of building a scaled-down cluster to test a distributed system, to experiment with a high-availability scenario, or to see if your failover design really works, all in the…