Lab Blueprint
Build a Homelab That Actually Teaches You Something
Stop collecting hardware. Start building skills. Get a custom Proxmox homelab blueprint designed around your goals, your budget, and your gear — by an engineer who built cyber ranges for the U.S. Army.
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No calls. No consulting. Just a complete plan, delivered in days.
You don’t actually want a homelab.
You want what a homelab gets you:
- The Linux experience that gets you out of helpdesk
- The security lab that turns cert knowledge into interview stories
- Plex, Home Assistant, and your photos off Big Tech’s servers
- A local AI box that doesn’t bill you by the hour
- Kubernetes on your resume, running on your desk
The problem? Forty browser tabs of contradictory advice, YouTube builds made for views instead of learning, and a few hundred dollars riding on every decision. So most people buy the wrong gear and stall — or never start.
One form. One blueprint. Zero guesswork.
Tell us four things — your goals, your budget, your current hardware, your skill level — and within days you get a complete architecture plan: exact hardware priced to your budget, Proxmox layout, VM/LXC plan, storage and networking design, a backup plan, security hardening, a step-by-step build order, and a 6–18 month expansion roadmap.
Designed by someone who’s done this for two decades.
Charles Montago spent 20 years in the U.S. Army — ten in IT, ten in cybersecurity — then worked as a Senior Security Engineer and Linux Systems Administrator. He’s engineered cyber ranges, automated RHEL fleets with Ansible and Puppet, and run Proxmox, KVM, and VMware in production. His homelab is a Proxmox cluster he uses every day. Every blueprint is personally reviewed and approved before it ships — not a template, not an AI dump.
Starter — $99
Your first lab. One node, one clear goal. 5-day turnaround.
Builder — $249 ★
The serious lab. Career mapping included. 7-day turnaround.
Advanced — $499
Clusters, cyber ranges, Kubernetes, GPU/AI. 10-day turnaround.