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Practical technology help for homes and small businesses, from someone who knows how to make it work. Based in Martinez, serving Contra Costa County.

Practical IT guides, cheatsheets, and references from Jeremiah Ellington, drawn from more than 20 years of IT work in public sector and higher education.

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Email hello@jeremiahellington.com
Location Martinez, CA (Serving Contra Costa County)
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Email hello@jeremiahellington.com
Location Martinez, CA (Serving Contra Costa County)
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Homelab & Virtualization

Proxmox, virtual machines, containers, and building a lab you can learn on.

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Building Your First Proxmox Homelab

Plan, build, and run a single-node Proxmox VE homelab: hardware, storage, networking, installation, VMs vs. containers, backups, and security, plus the mistakes to avoid.

Proxmox VE 9.x (9.2 current on 2026-10-27; Debian 13 based); single node. Commands and settings checked against Proxmox VE 9.x docs, not lab-tested on a 9.2 host · Updated