🌿 Welcome to Gnótt Documentation
Whether you're building your first Raspberry Pi project, deploying virtual machines in Proxmox, configuring storage in Unraid or TrueNAS, or just exploring the wild world of networking and servers — you're in the right place.
Gnótt Docs exists to save time, avoid repeated mistakes, and share practical knowledge the way real homelabbers learn:
through experiments, failures, fixes, improvements — and the occasional “why does this suddenly work?” moment 🤯
📌 What this documentation is (and isn’t)
✔ Straight to the point — real examples, commands, working configs
✔ Community driven — written by people who actually run this stuff
✔ Beginner friendly, but not oversimplified
✔ A living project — constantly growing with new lessons
❌ Not formal corporate documentation
❌ Not generic AI-generated filler content
❌ Not everything-perfect-first-try
We break things, fix them, and document the journey.
🧭 What can you explore?
| Category | Summary |
|---|---|
| 🏗️ Homelab | Hypervisors, storage, virtualization, backups, self-hosting architecture, monitoring, automation and more. |
| 🍓 Raspberry Pi | Tiny but powerful tools for smart home, kiosks, containers, touch dashboards, sensors, NAS-lite and edge compute. |
| 🎛 Media Servers | Jellyfin, Emby, Plex, streaming setups, hardware transcoding, storage layouts and remote-access best practices. |
| 💽 Operating Systems | Linux, Debian/Ubuntu, Windows Server, BSD variants, system maintenance, services and commands worth remembering. |
| 🔌 Networking | VLANs, VPNs, routing, DNS, reverse proxying, certificates, Cloudflare tunnels and secure external access. |
| ✨ Miscellaneous | Tips, cheat sheets, scripts, hardware picks and “good to know before you regret not knowing it.” |
🚀 How to use this documentation
- Browse by category
- Follow Getting Started guides
- Use the cheat sheets and commands
- Experiment — break things (safely), learn
- Contribute if you discover something useful
Knowledge grows when shared.
🧠 Philosophy
“If you had to look it up twice — document it.”
This site isn’t meant to impress.
It's meant to remember.
So that future-you (and maybe others) never have to solve the same problem again.
🤝 Contributing
If you want to contribute improvements, guides, notes, warnings, or fixes — awesome.
Pull requests, suggestions, real-world setups, optimizations and “finally figured this out” discoveries are all welcome.
🌲 Enjoy the journey
Homelabbing is a hobby full of curiosity, learning, creation, and sometimes chaos.
Take your time, experiment, and have fun.
Welcome to Gnótt.
Let’s build cool things — one config file at a time.