Dev Patel

Senior Homelab Writer & Infrastructure Engineer

Dev Patel is a homelab builder and infrastructure writer with more than a decade of hands-on experience running self-hosted servers at home. He builds, tests, and documents real home server setups covering NAS storage, virtualization, container orchestration, and secure remote access. Dev keeps a live rack in his basement stacked with refurbished enterprise gear, and he learns most of what he writes by breaking things first and fixing them later. His guides focus on the small details that only surface after the first thousand hours of running a homelab, including power draw, thermals, disk failure patterns, and the tiny configuration choices that decide whether a weekend project becomes a five year backbone.

• Synology
• QNAP
• TrueNAS
• RAID & ZFS
• Backup strategy

120 published guides