https://ss44.ca/categories/home-lab/Recent content in Home Lab on Shajinder Singh Padda ~ a guy sitting in front of a computerHugoen-caSun, 05 Apr 2026 22:34:28 +0000https://ss44.ca/notes/2026-home-lab/Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:34:28 +0000https://ss44.ca/notes/2026-home-lab/<p>I&rsquo;ve been running my own homelabs now for a better part of a decade but I never really took the time to document / reward / shoutout the tools that I&rsquo;ve been using regularly.</p> <p>Part wanting to help ya&rsquo;ll out, part wanting a time capsule to look back on, I thought I&rsquo;d put together my current favourite tools.</p> <h2 id="media-server---plex">Media Server - <a href="https://www.plex.tv/">Plex</a> </h2> <figure class="center"> <img src="https://ss44.ca/notes/2026-home-lab/plex_hu_79760092ad450f93.png" alt="Plex" /> </figure> <p>This is a bit cliché. I haven&rsquo;t jumped on the jellyfin bandwagon largely because it&rsquo;s just not as accessible across devices. My current Plex server does everything I need and while I can&rsquo;t imagine switching or adding Jellyfin would be a pain, I haven&rsquo;t hit the wall with Plex yet.</p>