Hegarty Advanced Solutions / Free resources
Six practical guides for building and operating your own systems. Work through a topic, use the checklist, and keep the decisions with your configuration. No account or purchase needed.
Plan & build
Workloads, platforms, and network access.
Make the important decisions before deploying.
Homelab planning
Choose your first services, separate experiments from household dependencies, and budget for storage, networking, power, and recovery.
Includes a one-page planning checklist
Read the planning guideContainers & virtual machines
Compare kernels, isolation, resources, device access, and rebuild requirements. Learn when containers, VMs, or a combination make sense.
Includes a workload placement checklist
Compare containers and VMsHomelab networking
Separate DNS, addresses, ports, TLS, and proxying. Define who can connect and troubleshoot the path from a client to an application.
Includes a service-access checklist
Read the networking guideRun & maintain
Deploy deliberately. Notice failures.
Know how to recover.
Service deployment
Check persistent storage, network exposure, permissions, user behaviour, update procedures, and rollback before relying on a service.
Includes a deployment acceptance checklist
Read the deployment guideService monitoring
Choose useful health and capacity signals, track backup age, and test that an actionable notification reaches you when something fails.
Includes a monitoring-plan checklist
Read the monitoring guideBackup & recovery
Inventory dependencies, keep independent copies and credentials, and test a restore without overwriting the working application.
Includes a recovery-readiness checklist
Read the recovery guideOptional hands-on practice
RestoreLab is a separate paid course and executable lab. Practise a complete recovery and an incomplete-backup failure using an isolated synthetic application.