The Kaddu Systems Guides are short, practical handbooks for people who want to run their own services at home. No hype and no rack of enterprise servers: one used PC, a handful of useful services, and plain instructions for getting there. This page is where the guides link to, and where the deeper write-ups live once the booklet’s pages run out.
Homelab Handbook: Getting Started
The first guide takes you from finding a used desktop PC to a quiet, low-power home server. It covers the hardware, storage and networking, Proxmox as the hypervisor, and then the services people usually end up running: Jellyfin, Immich, Nextcloud, Vaultwarden, Home Assistant, AdGuard Home, the *arr stack, Paperless-ngx, Navidrome and Uptime Kuma. It finishes with remote access through Tailscale and where to go next.
It’s written for anyone comfortable installing software, pasting a terminal command and reading an error message. You don’t need to be a network engineer.
There are two editions with the same content. They differ only in where to buy hardware, the prices quoted and power costs: pick North America or Europe at checkout, whichever matches where you live.
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What’s next
More titles are planned for backup servers, NAS builds and running a local LLM. None of them is started yet, so there are no dates.
Go deeper
Posts that go further than the handbooks can are listed below as they’re published. For everything else about my own setup, see the Homelab category.
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