Some of the stuff I use when labbing at home

What I Use

Below are some selections of the different types of applications and hardware that I use on a day-to-day basis for my own personal systems.

Anti-Malware

• Windows Defender and Crowdstrike

Password Management

• 1Password

Email, Calendar, & Cloud Storage

• Outlook and M365-suite with Onedrive, Hetzner Storage boxes, Storadera S3 storage and Put.io. Rclone to connect all of it across platforms.

Code Editor

• Visual Studio Code

Code Repository & Revision Control

• Github

Personal VPN

• Tailscale and trying out Twingate.
• MullvadVPN when there is need.

Networking

Hypervisors

• XCP-NG is awesome
• Hyper-V because my corpo Windows laptop is nice.

Firewall

• OPNsense for life.

Switching

• Crap Netgear switch.

Wireless

• Crap Ubiquiti mesh

Cloud Server Hosting

• Hetzner, Digital Ocean, HostKey etc etc.

Domain Registration & CDN

• Namecheap for the domains
• CloudFlare for DNS all the things