Plan, inspect and generate
Home Server Tools
Working calculators and local analyzers for power, storage, networking, media, virtualization and containers. Every result includes its assumptions and limitations.
Home Server Power Cost
Estimate daily, monthly, and annual energy cost from real power draw.
RAID & ZFS Capacity
Compare usable capacity, efficiency, and disk-failure tolerance.
Network Transfer Time
Estimate backup and file-copy time with protocol overhead included.
SMART & NVMe Health Explainer
Paste a smartctl or nvme-cli report and turn key health fields into a readable local summary.
iperf3 Result Analyzer
Read JSON or text output, compare both directions, and calculate link efficiency.
Media Storage Calculator
Estimate library size from video bitrate, runtime, overhead and backup copies.
Proxmox VM Storage Planner
Plan live VM data, growth, snapshots, reserves and backup capacity without confusing allocated and used space.
Docker Compose Starter Generator
Generate a conservative starter stack for Nginx, PostgreSQL and Redis with health checks and persistent volumes.
Wake-on-LAN Troubleshooter
Symptom-first WoL diagnostic with S5/S3 reliability scoring for dual-NIC Windows mini PCs.
Wake-on-LAN Checklist Generator
Generate an ordered pre-deployment WoL checklist: firmware, driver, Windows power, sender path and five-cycle validation.
Jellyfin QSV Transcode Calculator
Estimate how many simultaneous Intel Quick Sync transcode streams an EQi12 (Core i3-1215U) keeps real time, from measured QSV throughput.
Backup Retention & Window Planner
Size the capacity a retention policy really needs and check whether the nightly job finishes inside your window.
NAS vs Mini PC Cost Comparator
Compare multi-year running cost for a mini PC, NAS, desktop and tower server from measured idle and load watts.
Home Assistant Capacity Estimator
Check a mini PC or SBC against Home Assistant hardware floors and estimate Recorder database and camera storage from editable assumptions.
Port Audit Checklist Generator
Generate an ordered listener and firewall audit checklist: TCP inventory, binding scope triage, rule review and before/after diff validation.
Power Outage Recovery Checklist
Generate an ordered outage-recovery checklist: BIOS State After G3 setup, UPS and graceful-shutdown protection, service auto-start and a three-cycle AC-restore validation.
NVMe SMART Warning Triage
Turn a smartd Critical Warning email into a decision: decode the bit, separate live thermal from remembered smartd state, and list the exact replace-now signals.