I've been doing HomeLab and HomeLab-adjacent things for over 10 years at this point. My first experience in the space was a Raspberry Pi 2 that I used for a few years to run various services such as Pi-Hole, CUPS, and numerous other software. Since then, my lab has had
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I get what the author is talking about with losing trust in your services when they are unavailable. I have found that a Raspberry Pi 3/4 cluster running k3s utilizing NAS storage has very good uptime and honestly I think my internet service goes down more than my homelab services.
Thanks! I find most of the issues occur during upgrades to services, but that is to be expected.
My internet service is usually more of an issue than most services I run. Though some things take longer to get tweaked and running well and that can cause issues.