Welcome to SohoLab — What is This?

The Soholab

SohoLab is the homelab section of CONRAM.IT — a dedicated space for writing about what actually happens when you run real hardware at home emulating when a bunch of computers suddenly became a lesson in almost corporate infrastructure.

The lab is small-office/home-office scale: rack-mounted hardware, Proxmox as the hypervisor platform, a mix of VMs and containers, network gear that earns its keep, and storage with opinions. It runs continuously, breaks occasionally, and gets rebuilt when something better comes along or when the previous approach turns out to have been optimistic.

What gets written up here is what comes out of that — component choices that weren't obvious, configurations that took longer than they should have, hardware quirks that aren't well documented anywhere else, and code snippets that solved a specific problem and might solve yours too. Not a manual. More of a record of what we did and what we'd do differently.

The back catalogue migrated from the root site: firewall build, LSI/MegaRAID storage management, SFTP backup pipelines, and a few others. More to come as the lab evolves and the backlog gets written up.

General IT commentary, career writing, and the occasional gaming detour stays at conram.it. This is the infrastructure layer.