01 Starter
One well-run box that you can trust and restore.
You want a home server or a first homelab done properly, without turning it into a hobby of its own.
Included
- A design built around what you actually want to run, with the hardware chosen to fit it.
Shown in a write-up
- Hypervisor installed, storage laid out, and your first services moved onto it.
Shown in a write-up
- Backups configured, and one restore performed end to end before handover.
Shown in a write-up
- Alerts for the box and its backups that reach your phone, proven from the receiving end.
Shown in a write-up
Handed over
A written runbook: what is where, how to update it, and how to restore it.
02 Sweet spot
A small estate that looks after itself.
You run several services others rely on, and want them reachable from anywhere without opening your network.
Included
- Everything in Starter, across a main host and a separate backup target.
Shown in a write-up
- Services published to the internet through an outbound tunnel behind single sign-on, with no inbound port opened.
Shown in a write-up
- Every published hostname tabulated against the rule that guards it, so a gap is visible.
Shown in a write-up
- Retention modelled and dry-run, then checked against what the backups actually kept.
Shown in a write-up
- Alerting reviewed so the alerts that fire are worth reading.
Shown in a write-up
Handed over
Runbooks, a diagram of how it fits together, and a walk-through session.
03 Full professional
A homelab run to the standard of a production estate.
Your lab is where you learn production habits, or it quietly became production for your household or a small business.
Included
- Everything in Sweet spot, with high availability for the services that need it and failover performed, not assumed.
Shown in a write-up
- Single sign-on with MFA on administrative interfaces, backed by a central directory.
Shown in a write-up
- A read-only security review with a numbered findings list, and secret scanning on your repositories.
Shown in a write-up
- An operations display of the whole estate, driven by live data and legible from across a room.
Shown in a write-up
Handed over
Full documentation, a verification harness that re-runs the checks, and the option of an ongoing arrangement.
Hardware is billed at cost, with no markup. You can also bring your own: the design starts from what you already have.