Referral Links
These are services I use across my homelab, spanning Equinix ME1 and home. If you sign up through any of the links below you will get a credit or discount, and I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only list things I actually run.
Cloud & Hosting
Vultr
Vultr covers global edge locations and the control plane is clean. Good option if you need presence across multiple regions or want bare metal on demand.
New accounts receive $100 in credit (valid for 14 days).
DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean’s managed services are hard to beat for simplicity. Managed Kubernetes, managed databases, and object storage without a lot of ceremony. I recommend it when someone needs a platform that gets out of the way.
New accounts receive $200 in credit valid for 60 days.
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Networking
Tailscale
Tailscale is the backbone of how my two sites communicate. It sits alongside the IPSec tunnel and handles management access, cross-site node connectivity, and remote access without needing to expose anything publicly. If you run infrastructure across more than one location it makes the networking problem largely disappear.
The free tier covers most homelab use cases. Paid plans start when you need ACLs at scale or SSO integration.
All links on this page are referral or affiliate links. Signing up through them supports the site at no extra cost to you. I do not recommend anything I do not run.