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The 2026 home lab has settled into a recognizable stack. Proxmox is still the most-recommended base in this year's community starter guides, with TrueNAS 26 closing the gap now that it runs full LXC containers. On top of it: Jellyfin — which the 2026 self-hosting roundups … read more

Open Dell's PowerEdge configurator today and three things hit at once. The starting price is far above what you budgeted last year. The memory options you wanted say “No longer available.” And the build you finally assemble is weeks out, if it is orderable at all. T … read more

Correction, September 27, 2026. Dell's firmware enables Windows Server 2025 on the PowerEdge R640 and R740, but Dell's support matrix and its Server 2025 RAID driver do not include them: BIOS 2.22.2 (October 1, 2024) lists “Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2025 Operat … read more

"How much does a server cost?" used to have a boring answer. In 2026 it has a moving one: a global memory shortage roughly doubled server DRAM prices in a single quarter, Dell and Lenovo have each raised list prices twice since December while HPE rewrote its terms so a price ca … read more

Cloud vs on-premise is usually argued with adjectives. This guide argues it with a receipt. We price one mainstream AWS instance against the equivalent refurbished Dell PowerEdge from our own catalog, add the real monthly costs of ownership — electricity at the current na … read more

On January 12, 2027, Microsoft ends extended support for Windows Server 2016. No more security updates, no more patches, no more support cases — for an operating system that still runs a very large installed base of Active Directory domains, file servers, and Hyper-V host … read more

Correction, September 27, 2026. The R750 attaches up to 16 NVMe drives directly and reaches 24 only through a PCIe switch: per Dell's R750 Installation and Service Manual, the 16-drive layout is cabled directly to the CPUs, partly through R1 and R3 paddle cards that take the pl … read more