https://blog.mylemans.online/Unlock tech with simple tips, blogs, and guides! From trends to troubleshooting, we offer expert insights for every tech user. 2026-08-04T14:59:00+00:00 Marc Mylemans https://blog.mylemans.online/ Jekyll © 2026 Marc Mylemans /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2026-08-02T07:00:00+00:00 2026-08-04T14:58:33+00:00 https://blog.mylemans.online/posts/proxmox-ceph-10gbe-network-design/ Marc Mylemans

I had three identical mini PCs, one dual-port 10GbE card in each, and an eight-port 10G switch. That is not enough ports to do everything the documentation assumes you can do, and working out what to give up took longer than the actual install. By the end of this post you will know how to lay out the networking for a 3-node Proxmox VE and Ceph cluster on exactly two 10G ports per node, why I e...

2026-07-25T00:00:00+00:00 2026-07-25T00:00:00+00:00 https://blog.mylemans.online/posts/hyper-v-vs-proxmox-2026/ Marc Mylemans

Hyper-V vs Proxmox in 2026: What Sysadmins Must Know Everyone in the homelab community runs Proxmox. But walk into most small-to-mid enterprise shops and Hyper-V is still quietly handling production workloads without anyone questioning it. In 2026, the Hyper-V vs Proxmox debate has more nuance than the internet gives it credit for. Both platforms have changed significantly. Proxmox VE 9.2 shi...

2026-07-17T07:00:00+00:00 2026-07-17T10:00:00+00:00 https://blog.mylemans.online/posts/cloudconnexa-intune-zero-trust-remote-access/ Marc Mylemans

Your remote access is fine, until someone leaves Most small-business remote access is a shared VPN config that has been sitting in a Teams chat for three years, an RDP port someone swears is safe because it is not the default one, and no clean way to answer the one question that matters when a person walks out the door: what can they still get into? In this post I build the fix, starting from...

2026-07-06T00:00:00+00:00 2026-07-06T00:00:00+00:00 https://blog.mylemans.online/posts/self-host-first-app-docker-compose/ Marc Mylemans

Every app you rent is a subscription you’ll pay forever. Somebody else hosts it, somebody else controls it, and the invoice never stops. In this guide you’ll self-host your first app on your own hardware, using one text file and one command, even if you’ve never touched a container. By the end, you’ll type an address into your browser and your own app will load from your own server. We’ll cover...

2026-06-22T00:00:00+00:00 2026-06-27T22:35:52+00:00 https://blog.mylemans.online/posts/home-server-now-what-5-things/ Marc Mylemans

The install finished, the dashboard loaded, and now you’re staring at a powerful machine with no idea what to do next. That’s the moment nobody makes a video about, and it’s exactly where good homelabs quietly go wrong. This post is the five things to do first, before you install a single app. They take maybe twenty minutes, and they’re the difference between a server you own and a black box y...