About HomeServersGuide
HomeServersGuide.com is an independent educational resource dedicated to helping anyone build, secure, optimize, and maintain their own home server — from a first Raspberry Pi to a full homelab.
Our mission
We believe everyone should be able to own their data and understand the technology that runs their digital life. Our guides are vendor-neutral, practical, and written so a beginner can follow them while still being useful to experienced homelabbers.
What we cover
Hardware buying guides, operating systems, Docker and self-hosted apps, storage and NAS, networking, security, backups, and interactive tools like our power and RAID calculators. Everything is organized so you can go from an idea to a running service quickly.
How we stay independent
The site is free and supported by advertising and affiliate links. When we link to a product and you buy it, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. These commissions never influence our recommendations — we only suggest gear and software we would genuinely use.
We do not require accounts, we do not sell your data, and we use privacy-friendly analytics by default.