When you start seeing Spring Cleaning posts on socials, why not take a day to start “cleaning” with your devices at home? I took the day to review my home lab server and validate it could still run the projects I wanted it to. Below is all the steps I went through while knocking off the cobwebs.. the server has not been online since October of 2024. The problem Outdated server, lab was running Ubuntu 20.

This blog post is a record of what I did to spin up a home server that uses Docker for various side projects and fun. One of the pain points of having projects that involve computer applications, websites, or code is that it needs to be hosted somewhere to run. Our personal computers are not usually online for projects that could be running all the time. Creating physical servers or paying for cloud hosting can get expenive fast for passion projects or proof of concepts.