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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/RootSignalOps on 2026-05-17 15:40:47+00:00.

Started this weekend trying to clean up a small Linux setup.

A few hours later I somehow had:

• Docker containers everywhere
• monitoring dashboards
• firewall rules
• backup scripts
• terminal tabs I forgot existed
• 3 different configs named “final-final-fixed”

The funny part is that the tiny VPS is still running perfectly fine with surprisingly low resource usage.

Also learned:

• documenting commands immediately saves future suffering
• cleaning old ports/services matters more than people think
• “I’ll optimize it later” becomes a dangerous sentence very quickly

At this point I think homelab projects reproduce on their own when nobody is watching.