When your home lab has a better disaster recovery plan than your career plan - (Episode 171)
From That IT show by thatitshow
May 14, 2026 · 51 min · Season 3 · Episode 19
About this episode
The episode explores the complexities and absurdities of over-engineered home labs and their disaster recovery plans.
Somewhere along the way, “learning virtualization” turned into running a miniature Fortune 500 datacenter next to the washing machine. In this episode, we dive head-first into the glorious madness of over-engineered home labs: redundant power supplies for one user, Kubernetes clusters hosting absolutely nothing important, backup strategies more detailed than our retirement plans, and the eternal justification that “it’s for learning.” We talk about the slippery slope from a single Raspberry Pi to racks full of servers screaming through the night, why every homelabber eventually discovers VLANs at 2 AM, and how disaster recovery suddenly becomes deeply personal when Plex goes offline. If you’ve ever convinced yourself that a 100-gigabit upgrade was “necessary,” this episode may feel uncomfortably familiar.
People in this episode
Host: thatitshow
Topics covered
- home lab
- disaster recovery
- virtualization
- over-engineering
- backup strategies
- VLANs
Keywords
- home lab
- disaster recovery
- virtualization
- Kubernetes
- Raspberry Pi
- backup strategies
- VLANs
- tech learning
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Plex
Products: Raspberry Pi, Kubernetes
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