My home lab today.

I ditched big email providers like Gmail and found Mailcow to host my own email server. It’s way easier than it sounds, giving me total control over my data without the hassle of getting lost in complicated setups. Overall, it’s a solid, modern solution for personal or family email management.

I’ve tried various reverse proxies, but nothing beats Traefik for my self-hosted setup. It auto-detects services, handles HTTPS renewals, and makes life easier with cool middleware features. While it’s not perfect for everyone, it revolutionized how I manage my home-lab, ditching the manual grind of Nginx.

OS: Debian 13 DNS: Bind9 (hand configured) Application Proxy: Traefik (dockerized) Mail: Mailcow (dockerized) WWW: WordPress (dockerized)