written guides

Guides

Step-by-step homelab & self-hosting guides.

Paste this into ChatGPT, Claude, or your preferred chatbot:

Help me get started with my homelab. Do the following:
1. Interview me about my hardware, my network, and what I want to
   self-host.
2. Give me the commands to check what's already in place — my OS,
   whether Docker is installed, and what's already running — and I'll
   report back the output.
3. Build me a step-by-step plan starting with the thing I want most,
   and flag security footguns before I hit them — prefer a mesh VPN or
   tunnel over port forwarding.
4. Check the REFERENCE page for a written guide matching my goal and
   follow it if one exists.
5. Suggest the most relevant next steps.

REFERENCE
https://bigibz.com/guides/

Jellyfin setup

Install Jellyfin on Windows, macOS, Docker or Linux. Includes first time setup, library configs, and hardware transcoding.

Set Up the Arr Stack — Prowlarr, Sonarr, Radarr & Lidarr

Setup docker compose files, ports, API keys and connect them all to each other.

Host Your Own Palworld 1.0 Dedicated Server

Spin up a free Palworld dedicated server on Ubuntu with SteamCMD.

more guides coming soon