Why a Homelab?
A homelab is where you learn by building. It’s a safe space to test ideas, break things, and rebuild smarter. Mine includes servers, storage, VLANs, firewalls, containers, and federated platforms — all designed with clarity and control.

I use the OSI model to structure VertLab:

• Physical: Servers, switches, cabling
• Data Link: VLANs, bonding
• Network: Routing, firewalls, tunnels
• Transport: TCP/UDP, load balancing
• Session: Reverse proxies, auth
• Presentation: TLS, encoding
• Application: Containers, dashboards, email, federation
  Each layer is intentional. Each experiment builds upward.