About HomelabCompass

HomelabCompass exists because choosing homelab and self-hosted infrastructure shouldn't mean wading through affiliate-bait listicles and vendor datasheets. Every comparison here is opinionated, current, and based on actually running the tools.

Who writes this

I'm Jonathan Caruso, a network systems administrator. I run a homelab and work with this class of infrastructure professionally: firewalls, hypervisors, NAS, containers, and the networking underneath. The verdicts here come from hands-on use, not rephrased marketing.

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