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Finally Friday! Core Lab: Multiple New Guides & Updates🎆

Hello everyone, there's been a lot of changes on the site this past week and multiple new key tech guides! I thought it would be best to roll them into a weekly summary and not spam your inboxes (entirely) with a new email about every new guide... Please let me know if you have thoughts on frequency of emails or your preference, once a week, each new post etc?

New Key Tech Guides:

  • 💫Unlimited Plex/Jellyfin & Real Debrid Server [🔒Premium]
    • This guide aims to take you beyond your own storage and hard drives. Follow this guide and you won't need to buy another media server hard drive ever again! It also guides the way for you to integrate Debrid with Plex/Jellyfin so that you can share and access your massive Debrid services without getting banned.
    • There's even a docker compose ⚙️generator to hand-craft you the perfect unlimited media streaming stack!
Building the “Unlimited” Plex/Jellyfin & Real Debrid Stack with DUMB
🎬 Introduction: Why DUMB is Your New Best Friend If you’re already running a Plex or Jellyfin server, you know the magic of having your own media library. But what if you could have a virtually infinite library that streams content near instantly, without the need for massive local storage, torrenting,
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  • 🥏Ultimate Docker *Arr Media Stack Guide
    • Do you love the idea of automating your self-hosted media solution? Or do you want to integrate more services and develop the near-perfect container stack to provide the media of your dreams? This guide takes you there!
    • Also contains a docker compose generator! [🔒Premium]
Ultimate Container Media Server Guide
The ’arr stack is the holy grail of media automation for self-hosters. When I discovered these it blew my mind! Sonarr was first to burst onto the scene apparently in 2012, but I hadn’t noticed it until I discovered Docker, in 2013/14. Me and a buddy were like, “Man
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Post Updates & Overhauls

Some previous guides & posts were updated & refreshed with new info, or heavily modified for clarity, readability and logical flow. These include:

Recent Site Changes:

  1. Top bar navigation revamped & updated
    1. Should be simpler and more meaningful, open to feedback!
  2. New "Core" launch pages presenting relevant guides together in unified locations, with a logical flow. Easier to learn, easier to follow, provides a recommended path to follow depending on your goals.

New Core Pages

  1. The first new Core page is the Practical Cybersecurity Guide for Selfhosters. This is meant to help you secure your services and lock things down so some script kiddie doesn't walk their way into your network!
A Practical Cybersecurity Roadmap for Homelabs
Learn to protect your data, services and privacy with actionable steps and clear tutorials. So, you’ve built an incredible homelab. You’re spinning up services in Docker, managing your media, and maybe even self-hosting your own website. You are the master of your own data. But with every new service you
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  1. The next one is the Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Server Guide. This is meant to walk someone through selecting a 'path', setting up a brand new server/NAS, from scratch and get them up and running with the media server of their choice, with no frills! It also has quite a few advanced tips & tricks all tucked away in posts like the Plex Optimization Guide, etc...
    1. The bottom of this core page also contains a full section on hosting your own "Digital Vault", which collates the guides I have published so far relating to apps/containers supporting "de-googling", retaining your own data privacy & control of your personal media. The Immich deployment guide is here for example, with many more to follow.
The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Server Guide
We’ve all felt it. You subscribe to three different streaming services, and the one show you want to watch is on a fourth. You’re paying a premium for a fragmented, inconvenient experience. Or maybe you have a vast local library of media, but it’s a mess of folders on a
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Cybersecurity News Corner 🛡️

Curious about the latest threats affecting self-hosters? This month, we saw F5 Big IP get absolutely PWNED, and Cisco frantically scrambling to tell customers to patch. Get the full breakdown, analysis, and what it means for your homelab in our full Cybersecurity News Summary post here.

This Month in Cyber: When the Giants Stumble, We All Feel the Shake
October 22, 2025 Hey everyone. I’ve been in the cybersecurity trenches for 19+ years, and I’ve seen a lot of things that would make you want to unplug everything and move to a cabin up a mountain in BC/Alberta, or somewhere along the Pacific Northwest! But this
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Hope you have a fantastic weekend! 🏁

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