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• Heimdall is my choice for my personal Dashboard. In my opinion, between all the other available dashboards, Heimdall is the best when it comes to setup simplicity and elegant design that is mostly customizable

• Proxmox Virtual Environment is the main OS that is running directly to the hardware. This allows me to spin up multiple virtual machines that I can access and use as long as I'm connected within the network. This helps to delegate services being ran so that multiple services aren't constantly hitting each other but it still allows connection between them if needed

• Casa OS was at first my least favorite docker application tool however I have grown very fond of this service. It actually makes docker container deployments much easier than using CLI or even Portainer!

• Nginx Proxy Manager is the tool I use to route my services from their IP address:Port Number to a domain name. However even though its now going to a domain name it still does not hit the public internet because all the DNS records are within the network and not a public IP address. Therefore implementing more zero trust. Also along with the domain name you can create and sign your own SSL certificates that passes with the Certificate Authority. I would highly recommend to NEVER enter your internets public IP address into a DNS record and open a port on your network as once that public IP is registered on a DNS it can never be removed and will always be able to search. As with this application and a VPN, you can register all your DNS records with local IP addresses which are in 95% of world wide households and have no way of tracing back to you.

• NetData is the program I use to monitor all my hardware and network performance. This gives me very in-depth details about my server both for maintenance and threat prevention

• UpTime Kuma allows me to quickly look at the status of my services to make sure they are currently operational without having the need to physically look at them

• Emby is probably one of the most used as well as favorite service I have. This takes any digitally owned movie you have and by simply having the folders linked together with this service it will automatically turn all your movies into a netflix style interface and will also allow you to stream your movies from anywhere. True story watched a entire movie in 4k on a planes "In-Flight Wifi" Definitely a must have!

• Komga is very similar to Emby however instead of your digitally owned movies, this is for your digitally owned books/comics. Takes your file and automatically adds it to your system and gives it its proper thumbnails the exact same concept Emby runs on

• SyncThing is a very useful application when running multiple virtual machines or have multiple devices because this allows you to connect folders on multiple devices including Windows, Mac, Android & IOS and all files will always sync with each other

• FileBrowser is a great tool for having easy on the go access to all your files. Provides a very simplistic file explorer right through any web browser

• NextCloud is my most used application when it comes to every day to day life. This is truly your own personal cloud and allows you to connect just about everything in the logistics part of life. Definitely a must have no questions in any home server lab or even small business

• AdGuard is a great tool that you can implement either on a specific device, a router or depending which VPN you use, you can even point your VPN DNS at this and when connected to VPN it will block a high portion of ads in your network

• Another useful tool is your own internet speedtest server. This will allow you to speedtest directly to your server. I used on my cases to work kinks out in my network and I have actually made almost twice as much data pass through just by using this for instant data. Its very accurate and you can expect a actual download and upload speed of about 10% of the test. For example the above test would catch me about 6.4MBps download speed from my server and 5.6MBps upload speed to my server on my current network.

• Home Assistant is a great dashboard not only for a lot of your home lab services, but also a lot of your smart home devices. Some examples would be your smart light bulbs or your smart home thermostat even all the way to your houses sprinkler system. It puts everything you have into a Dashboard that makes your network a one stop shop. Mine is always being built on and constantly updated.

• If you have IP cameras in your house/business, iSpyAgentDVR is definitely a useful tool. You can connect all your cameras to this system to have a quick easy website view of your cameras. If you have the processing power and storage, you can also record to this system as well. This system has many features that I haven't gotten deep into however definitely worth looking at